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CountessRolab posted...

Depends on your definition of value.

Simply the revenue that they generate. Again, mass appeal is extremely lucrative. A few cents each from a million people is tens of thousands of dollars, and everyone involved in reaching those million people absolutely deserves to have a fair cut of that revenue based on how significant a role they played.

CountessRolab posted...

It is absurd to suggest that youtubers and athletes are more valuable to society than doctors and scientists.

Comparing individual youtubers to individual doctors? That's actually pretty debatable. One could pretty easily argue that entertaining a million people is a greater improvement to the world's collective quality of life than saving the lives of a thousand people, and even nobel prize-winning scientists don't make much of an impact, individually.

Collectively, doctors and scientists play a more valuable role in society than youtubers, certainly, but collectively, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out that doctors and scientists are paid more than youtubers. Not every youtuber is Pewdiepie, after all. The vast majority are lucky if they make enough to get by, and it's pretty common for them to have other jobs and just be treating youtubing as a hobby that makes a little bit of supplemental income.
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