Jealous of Ingrid? No.maoaimeng wrote:Jealous much? Because that's how I feel after reading the post above me.
There's nothing wrong with being rich and you made it sounds like you should be ashamed if your parents are rich. I think you are too judgmental about it and I doubt if you will be able to feel that way if you suddenly become rich (I'm sorry if you already are).
I have my issues with Ingrid and I don't mind people saying her makeup is ugly or she is overly bubbly or whatever, I respect those people's 'hate' because in my eyes it makes sense although I don't mind the same things about her. I do think she spends a lot, but she's also making a lot off YouTube nowadays regardless of how much you dislike the way she's making money, she is very big on YouTube now and she is successful in her career in that sense. So the way you describe her like she's a loser just doesn't reflect the reality.
Also, I have never sensed any proud in her for the fact that she's rich and I have been watching her for more than 3 years so I wonder how you sensed that apart from the fact that you read too much into the fact that she's rich...
Jealous of anyone who can make $300K salary doing 5 hours of "work" per week? Fuck yes.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with being wealthy...if you earn it. And I don't mean "earn it" as in get people to worship you enough that companies pay you to advertise a product, even if it means lying to people who trust you (as most of Ingrid's viewers do). And she certainly doesn't put in enough work to warrant earning 6 figures.
Nobody is saying that she should be ashamed of coming from a "rich" family. But that is part of why she's so "YouTube famous." Any one of us could do that if we could all quit our jobs and have an infinite amount of money to devote to shopping and giving prizes away every week. And that's how Ingrid was able to do it, because she was born into a family that was able to support her while she built up her channel to be as profitable as possible. Sure she worked at a store part time for at least a little while at the beginning, but not for long. As far as I'm concerned, Ingrid isn't worth what she gets paid and does not deserve to make the money that she makes.
You don't mind people criticizing her looks or her personality, but you object to people questioning whether she deserves the money she makes? Because that makes a ton of sense. This girl makes 8x more than most of us and all she does is posts 10 minute videos on YouTube a few times a month. My uncle has been a pediatric surgeon for 17 years and doesn't make much more than Ingrid. That is a travesty.
Just for the record...YouTube is not a career, it's a hobby.
And Klein, in the real world it's almost always about whether you're worthy of what you get paid. If you have no marketable skills and no education, you're going to be stuck working a dead-end, minimum wage job because that's all you're worth. If you graduated top of your class from Harvard Law and worked hard enough to score a 175 on the MBE, you're going to be making a hell of a lot more because you earned that and you deserve it. You're self employed, right? If you hired someone to do work for you, you'd pay them based on what they are worth and what they deserve, correct? You wouldn't just shoot off any arbitrary number because "making money isn't about deserving it," would you?
Advertising revenue is ridiculous and a terrible excuse for earned income. People have gotten paid millions of dollars for having brand logos tattooed on their bodies or wearing nothing but a company's T-shirt for an entire year. They didn't earn that money, nor did they deserve it. It happened, yeah, but that doesn't make it right and that doesn't mean I need to be okay with it. You may be, but most of us are not.
