Why is the world like this? Just reading this story about a Bollywood
celebrity who made Rs. 5 crore or a little over a million Dollars for a 10 minute appearance at a party- that works out to 100,000 dollars a minute.
What is it about celebrities that people care so much about them? A scientist who dedicates his life, toils in obscurity for the betterment of humanity is not given nearly the same amount of attention and respect he deserves, but a Michael Jackson passes away and the world will obsess about it ad infinitum. The average person won't even notice or care when a nobel prize winner dies. I'm not saying that the media and the masses should worship them the same way they worship celebs, because the nature of their work is different from that of a celeb. But at the same time such disparity in income, respect, and adulation is kind of sickening in my view.