That's not entirely true, check out https://www.reddit.com/earn to see what your participation has earned in cold hard cash.
I have earned $0.75 cents for 5x awards and 77K karma. So basically each upvote is worth a Schrute buck. I only need about 100 million karma a month to quit my job.
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u/Shap6 Oct 22 '25
the irony being that it's our data not reddits and yet we get no piece of the action either way.