I don’t have a problem with this cycle. I just don’t think everyone wins when someone wins this lottery. Some people receive far more reward than others even though they were all involved.

This doesn’t mean J.K. Rowling wrote a bad book or doesn’t deserve the money. That is a apparently very distracting example that misses the actual point.

I’m saying that when a person makes billions (read: lots) of dollars in a society that has people starving to death or otherwise unable to meet their basic needs then there is some exploitation happening somewhere. The economic rewards of that work are larger than the individuals contribution, someone is getting screwed.