The Five-Dollar Michelangelo: Why Your Budget Content Creator Won't Sculpt Your David

If you pay peanuts, you will only get monkeys (with due respect to simians).

Ah, the "Content Creator." A mythical beast that can conjure viral videos, captivating podcasts, stunning graphics, and bewitching blog posts for the princely sum of... five bucks? Listen closely, bargain-basement content buccaneers, because here's a reality check: Content is not a commodity. It's not a mass-produced widget that pops out of a machine pr…