Nintendo ID Claims Youtube LPs

[Zero Kirby]

Athletes get injured. All the time. Sometimes very seriously, sometimes even killed. They need very good insurance. They have contracts. They get traded. And the toll of playing sports is a hard one on the body after a very long time. And this is something that cannot realistically be prevented without simply not playing sports.

Lets Players can stop playing video games, take a few breaks, and get a daily dose of exercise and eating right to stop potential injuries and unhealthiness from playing games. They are not in contracts with anyone. They are rarely (if ever) seriously injured or killed without warning during a game and the game being the cause of death.

This is why paying athletes millions of dollars makes more sense than paying Lets Players millions of dollars. They are putting themselves at risk of serious injury in every game. Lets Players are not.

Okay.

But that still doesn't change anything. Let's Players are still spending hundreds of hours playing games and making videos, they are making less than minimum wage. Athletes are spending hundreds of hours training and playing sports, they are making millions. I never said LPers should make millions or that athletes should not make millions. I said that, by the same internal logic which is comparing the amount of effort being put into a way of life translating into money, that LPer's hours turning into less than minimum wage is nothing to complain about.

Emboldened and italicized for emphasis on the part that confuses me most in your post

So you agree with them not making very much money is perfectly okay?

(Minimum wage is also what employers are legally required to pay their not-underage employees and it changes like, all the time and is subjective by state/country. Just sayin', it's not the best measurement of money in a conversation like this.)

(Especially since LP'ers are self-employed, rendering the idea of minimum wage kinda useless.)