Even in a full communist utopia, if there's any fork of social reward for creating artwork at all (Whuffie or whatever) there has to be a way to assign it based on whether people actually consumed it and gained enjoyment from it rather than just that you did it
It's also worth noting that that top 1% of content creators are rich by normal standards - rich enough to inspire envy from the rest of us - but aren't anything CLOSE to actually rich rich The most famous "influencers" in the world make a living trad media considers "decent"
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Like if you're a YouTube personality who sacrifices all of your personal life and your privacy to your fans to develop a toxic parasocial relationship with them you can make the same income a moderately successful writer made in the 70s selling stories to glossy magazines
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