To go one step further with the analogy.

What if we consider, using your example, someone who posts the link on parley, is a person who spent considerable time on this forum commenting and interacting. Through that "work", that person attains quite a following.

Someone from the outside looks at the situation as someone posting a link versus someone taking the time to write, edit, and post an article. This would draw the logical conclusion that the person who posted the link did less "work" than the one writing it.

What we have here is the unseen efforts. Using the analogy, we see this in society with many activities not deemed "work". This causes a lot of people to be labelled negative things like lazy and freeloader.

Raising one's kids is not looked upon as work. Giving those "welfare" moms all that money is a waste. Never do you hear that one raising her kids produces better results in school, less juvenile trouble, and better health. Society would prefer this mother go work some dead end, low paying job, put her kids in day care (or worse, just leave them on their own), and be a "productive" member of society.

None of the behind the scenes work is recognized as a contribution to society. People only look at the impact as black and white. Money is given to her so she can stay home so it is a cost of our tax dollars.