To be fair, there are millions of farmers around the world and only a handful of white noise producers. Moreover, each white noise producer seems to be serving hundreds of thousands of people. Economy of scale is a thing.

That’s enough HN for me today.

Expect being flagged in 3 ... 2...

Conform, consume, follow or ...simply die.

That's our era's motto.

>>> "To be fair"

You're joking right? It's not fair. It's capitalism.

Ya, but I wouldn't be surprised if half the white noise guys are watching farming videos or woodworking videos to calm their anxiety at night.

Clearly, Im projecting.

This is Exhibit A of how awful social media can be: low effort, wrong, lack of nuance comment that invokes fake outrage and aims at stirring emotion from an wound up audience

The farmers didn't earn the $18k, and splitting it between them all wouldn't change anything for them. As ridiculous as it is to sell white noise for a living, it's a logical consequence of the kind of world that allows so many of us here on HN to make a living selling little bits of symbolic logic arranged in patterns.

Get back to me when this continues into the guy’s retirement.

You're comparing the p99 to the p25.

Farming has its wealthy members too

Who are these poor farmers? All the farmers around me are millionaires.

i heard bill gates is a farmer too these days

at least they aren't starving though?

also farming machines make some pretty nice noise so maybe they should get it on it.

When trying to find out what society really values, don't listen to what society says.

Rather look at who they actually pay more.

You seem to be under the impression that society values the likes of Bernie Madoff and Elizabeth Holmes.

Society values investment strategies and medical innovations. If society finds out it has been defrauded, then society tries to reclaim its investments and punish the fraudsters.

Not disagreeing with what you wrote, but the word "fraud" itself implies a distinction between perceived and actual value.

Society sounds very cranky

To be fair, if societal values are determined by capital allocation then the values are almost entirely determined by the top 10%.

Society did at some point, but I think society would pay more for a loaf of bread than a Madoff share today