In general, do you think sustainably making money is correlated/anti-correlated with quality? (And are there specific domains where you believe the opposite?)

I'm generally inclined to think expecting quality to pay off in most anything like art, food, or even what career you pick is a recipe for disappointment, but cesspools like twitter, etc... sort of got me on the track of thinking no platform with a sane business model would have ever gotten that bad.

i think, as far as Twitter is concerned, you might be conflating "quality" with "functionality"

I think it is loosely correlated. It's certainly more tightly correlated in things like cars and houses, and less so in things like yogurt.

sustainably making money

the phrase i needed to see to start off my weekend with a bang

Oh weird -- I have the opposite experiences (with cars, houses and yogurt!)

xp everybody's working on the weekend 🎶

i dont think they are connected

i have tried, but i am not able to understand your question on a basic conceptual level, particularly once learning that it was somehow about twitter

I think I misread it as "Do you get what you pay for?"

It's both sides of it -- like if you spend your life making really awesome artisanal yogurt, chances are you're not going to spend enough time figuring out how to live off that yogurt, and your pricing will be all over the place, and your parents were probably right you should have just been a plumber like your Uncle Rick, but on the other hand, Chobani somehow figured it out and you do pay more for Chobani and it does taste much better than trash Dannon, but at the same time, is Chobani all we can aspire to as far as the heights of yogurt?

It's both sides of it -- like if you spend your life making really awesome artisanal yogurt, chances are you're not going to spend enough time figuring out how to live off that yogurt, and your pricing will be all over the place, and your parents were probably right you should have just been a plumber like your Uncle Rick, but on the other hand, Chobani somehow figured it out and you do pay more for Chobani and it does taste much better than trash Dannon, but at the same time, is Chobani all we can aspire to as far as the heights of yogurt?

― Philip Nunez

i think you're selling the marketability of artisanal products short. if a product is worth the money, people will find a way to pay for it, by which i mean "sex work". spend your life doing something, and eventually you will become good enough at it that people will do sex work to be able to afford your product. malcolm gladwell said that.

I don't think Chobani is significantly better than other yogurts, tbh.

to be fair chobani isn't that much more expensive either.
sex for yogurt does seem like either it's heralding late-stage capitalism or a moneyless barter society.