[balthasar]

The entertainment industry has always had pop culture icons making more than skilled-professionals. Are you getting social media confused with companies who innovate just because they both use computers?

[CodeSheikh]

Agree that people in entertainment always making more money than skilled-professionals. But my point is that younger demographic is heavily influenced by current social-media-preneurs rater than STEM achievers.

[leereeves]

That's nothing new. Sports, acting, and music attracted a huge fraction of young Baby Boomers and GenXers.

[dragonwriter]

> The entertainment industry has always had pop culture icons making more than skilled-professionals.

And vast hordes, often indistinguishable but for luck, making far less. But they are less visible, inherently.