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6: General Purpose Problem

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Money Doesn't Work That Way

Beautyby e is earning seven million dollars versus four million dollars a couple of years ago, he's not twice as happy as he used to be. But the way the economy works is it doesn't actually matter if his job is really easy. That's not how compensation works on the internet. Even if he just has the easiest job in the whole world, he has been able to generate a huge audience of people. And it is that huge audience that is valuable to advertisers, and is thus related to related to the amount of money that he makes.

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