most normal people have to provide value in the traditional sense yes, but commanding attention and eyeballs, also commands money, because it has value to advertisers, hence why footballers get paid a ton of money for playing a game , but a plumber makes less, despite the fact he has more utility 

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bitcoin

Has v4v failed ?

If Joe doesn't like it the office cubicle awaits. I wouldn't expect people to pay me to swan around the world living a Bitcoin inflooencer life. You get paid by controlling access to some resource people want or need. Or you sacrifice your time doing something someone else with money would rather not do themselves. Then, yes, there's begging, but that's never really been the royal road to riches. 