To be fair, there are millions of farmers around the world and only a handful of white noise producers. Moreover, each white noise producer seems to be serving hundreds of thousands of people. Economy of scale is a thing.

Ya, but I wouldn't be surprised if half the white noise guys are watching farming videos or woodworking videos to calm their anxiety at night.

Clearly, Im projecting.

This is Exhibit A of how awful social media can be: low effort, wrong, lack of nuance comment that invokes fake outrage and aims at stirring emotion from an wound up audience

The farmers didn't earn the $18k, and splitting it between them all wouldn't change anything for them. As ridiculous as it is to sell white noise for a living, it's a logical consequence of the kind of world that allows so many of us here on HN to make a living selling little bits of symbolic logic arranged in patterns.

Get back to me when this continues into the guy’s retirement.

You're comparing the p99 to the p25.

Farming has its wealthy members too

Who are these poor farmers? All the farmers around me are millionaires.

at least they aren't starving though?

also farming machines make some pretty nice noise so maybe they should get it on it.

When trying to find out what society really values, don't listen to what society says.

Rather look at who they actually pay more.