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More Kids Want to Be YouTubers than Astronauts Because Obviously

The highest-paid astronaut last year brought home around $120,000 — or 187 times less than the highest-paid YouTuber

Chris Stokel-Walker
FFWD
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4 min readJul 17, 2019

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At some point every kid wants to be an astronaut. Living life in the cosmos, eating astronaut ice cream, seeing the blue-and-green marble of the world as it…

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Chris Stokel-Walker
FFWD
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