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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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