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OK, we get a raw popularity figure for each artist, how do we convert that into an amount of money? Well, the obvious way is: distribute the money in proportion to popularity. So if A is a thousand times as popular as B, A will get a thousand times as much money as B. That's not efficient distribution of the money. It's not putting the money to good use. You see, it's easy for a star A to be a thousand times as popular as a fairly successful artist B. And if we use linear proportion, we'll give A a thousand times as much money as we give B. And that means that, either we have to make A tremendously rich, or we are not supporting B enough.