There's a false belief that online jobs are sustainable because a few people make lots of money doing it (at this particular moment). It's like the young women who think they have latched onto lifelong jobs posting thirst pictures on OnlyFans and/or Instagram, and that that is somehow going to provide them with endless income going forward. It's not. But try telling someone that, and you're just seen as someone who is incapable of understanding the "future". I've heard people actually discuss the number of followers they have on Instagram as some type of sustainable lifelong income possibility, and I just shake my head because it's not, and no amount of showing them the many failures of those pursuits will ever make a difference. But that's going to be their problem when that economy collapses in on itself. Totally their problem.