It’s fundamentally hard to govern YouTube. The tools to analyze and remove harmful video content don’t exist. Pic one, the existence of YouTube and harmful videos or no YouTube at all.
I'd venture to bet a lot of these folks wouldn't be willing to look the other way for $50k a year.
But if people had to be paid more for doing good, on average, that would mean most people preferred doing bad things! Which would be bad and mean most people would be evil.
Doing the right thing being costly isn't a thing that just happens to be true of our imperfect society, it's an unavoidable logical consequence of distinguishing between "right" and "profitable".
Convince me I'm wrong.