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by praptak 4197 days ago
> How is her cashing on her celebrity any different than a person funding an advertisement?

1. Popularity is naturally limited - you can only be so popular.

2. Laws made by Congress have negligible influence on Ophra's popularity. Not so with money. Corporations fund laws that make them more money which they can fund laws with.

In general it's the old fallacy of equating people's natural variance in ability - limited, not susceptible to positive feedback loop with the money/power inequality - practically unlimited, strongly reinforced by a positive feedback loop.