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There's also a "superstar effect" in some industries (such as TV, sports, and mobile apps). In these industries, the cost of making a product for one person, a hundred people, or a million people is roughly the same. Even when other workers enter the market to compete, they have a hard time making money despite the total money in the market being so big.

In the case of the Big Bang Theory, the audience being huge gives the market a lot of money, the popularity of the show gives the show a lot of the market, and the tight connection of the actors' performance with the popularity of the show gives them a lot of negotiating power for the show's money.

In the case of firefighters, cops, soldiers, and teachers, there are hard limits on how many people they can serve at a time, limiting the amount they can gain from the superstar effect.
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