[erikerikson]

> It's about power imbalance. Using your power (in this case, wealth) to encourage other people to do actions they otherwise would not want to.

Like working at a sprocket factory? I think that somewhat fairly fits here. You could be describing how most of the world looks at their work. My point is that there might be deeper to look for the more "honest" objection.

[hnlmorg]

There are laws (in Europe at least) to protect employees from being exploited due to that power imbalance.

Whereas it's not so clear cut, in my opinion at least, that contestants of Mr Beasts videos aren't being exploited. But as I said, the only people who can honestly answer that are the contestants themselves.

[erikerikson]

Similar laws exist in the US as well.

I haven't watched Mr Beast's videos to have an opinion. He popped up on my kid's screen once, we banned him and some associated channels and forgot him. It was clearly garbage content for us in our brief experience and not worth our time to identify why.