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Re:Snapchat’s Influencers Are Fleeing to Instagram for Money by jedberg on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @01:43AM (#15235852)
Just replace Youtube Star with Movie star. At least growing up in LA, lots of my friends wanted to be movie stars and rock stars. Some of them actually are now.

They apparently provide value to someone, because they make millions of dollars.

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Re:Snapchat’s Influencers Are Fleeing to Instagram for Money by inimino on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @04:00AM (#15236357)
> They apparently provide value to someone, because they make millions of dollars.

I would be careful with that kind of reasoning.

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Re:Snapchat’s Influencers Are Fleeing to Instagram for Money by fooker on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @04:50AM (#15236569)
That is more or less the definition of providing value.
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Re:Snapchat’s Influencers Are Fleeing to Instagram for Money by michaelt on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @08:44AM (#15237717)
Bernie Madoff made millions of dollars without producing any value.

I don't think making millions of dollars is the definition of producing value.

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Re:Snapchat’s Influencers Are Fleeing to Instagram for Money by TeMPOraL on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @11:16AM (#15239025)
That is the definition of providing monetary value to someone, not actual value to society. The two are correlated, but weakly.
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