You get what you pay for.
Forbes Magazine has published its annual list of the top-earning celebrities: Simon Cowell $95 million Howard Stern $95 million Glenn Beck $90 million Oprah Winfrey $77 million Dr. Phil McGraw $73 million Rush Limbaugh $66 million Donald Trump $63 million Ryan Seacrest $61 million What is the common thread? None of them do anything to directly benefit society. They are either telling us how to behave, whom we should like or expressing some opinion, as though we cannot form our own ideas. You can debate the relative usefulness of each of these to society - or not. It doesn't take a huge amount of evaluation to come to the conclusion that of the eight listed, none of them have any real day-to-day value to our lives, yet they earn salaries that most of us could live on for three lifetimes. That is disconcerting. The question to ask is "Why does society value these people so highly?" Afte...