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He gets well over a million dollars a year. He absolutely could do things differently. He's been doing it long enough and successfully enough he could probably just do it completely non profit for the rest of his life and live comfortably off his savings. He elects not to for the same reason he misrepresents Lenin to encourage people to vote for the democrats - because he is a wealthy liberal and his class interests are ultimately aligned with them.
Hasan is paying a producer, editors, and mods with that money, also. It's not all just going to him.
He doesn't pay his mods. He does pay the actual employees a lot though afaik, like I think they divide the revenue equally because they're in a cooperative type setup.