You beat me to it. I was thinking of making a post thanking the moderators as well.

I agree with the sentiment that the forum mods don't deserve a constant onslaught of negativity. However, all are here by choice. Should any member of the team be squirreling away some vast amount of brain power that could be used to get them a 6-figure salary plus a slew of benefits and an enviable retirement plan, choosing instead to only make audio games and administrate the audio games forum; I'd strongly plead to them to open their mind and chase their dreams and opportunities. I'd feel wrong thanking them.

In the end, people make seemingly daunting sacrifices to insure they can live a happy life. For some, the happiness of others is what gives them happiness while for others, it is things like money and a ton of possessions. Either way though, each example you listed above earns his living and his happy life by giving to others; the billionair likely gives the people entertainment, or clothes, or technology, or what have you - and his Twitter fandom is no coincidence.
By your post you paint the celebrity as this rather careless person who is lonely, resents what they are doing perhaps because of this, but must keep up an image. Perhaps this is true for some, but not all. Perhaps some have IQs topping 150 but prefer the lavish lifestyle, while others want nothing but to get out and slam shot after shot every night to forget the daily agony of the public eye. Furthermore, maybe that janitor can go places, but he doesn't want to. He is chasing his dream - and despite how mundane some perceive it to be, it makes him happy, and that's why he's willing to sacrifice for it. I can't think of one example where someone willingly endured tribulation without gain; even Jesus didn't do this, and I use him because according to Christians he is the most perfect and noble. He did it because he wanted to pay for our sins, and see us freed from them, give us another way to salvation. This would make him happy, because he loved us, so he did it.
Selflessness does not really exist. In the end it's all a matter of what motivates you - your happiness derived from that of others is still your happiness in the end. So long as the celebrity is not taking from us more than he is giving, so long as he is fulfilling his duties as an entertainer and making peoples' days, making people feel like they belong, giving them something they look forward to so much that they continue to put dollar after dollar towards it, then why should I admire him less than the janitor at an elementary school?
For each bad day the janitor has, the celebrity crashes and burns, yet again. No way either walks away unscathed every single time, right? With every success comes the road to it, and the failures of dead end alternatives.
Each time though, they reach for motivation - one from the wallet and one from the heart - but each in kind from their own reserve of hard earned, well deserved resources. In the end, if they both die with smiles on their faces - the funeral patrons cracking jokes in memory of the hilarious entertainer as they wander to and fro across immaculate tile floors, then what right do I have to judge the one better than the other? Hats off to both for chasing and living their dreams to the fullest, even if they hit and splattered against more than a few brick walls along the way.

Thanks everyone for, well, the thanks.
It does feel like since November the forum has been quite tricky. Getting people like Jayde on board meant that there was a firey spirit that I did not possess, and Jayde hit the ground running. I now make sure to weigh in more with decisions, though a lot of the time especially recently I've been looking at the staff decisions and mostly agreeing with them. Yep we've all made mistakes even me, and I do wonder if the moderation styles may continue to clash but at the same time, I do think we have a team. Granted that team is now pretty much all admins so everyone's got the same power as each other, but this was deliberated over on list, especially the point about admins not being able to be demoted. It does feel a bit like a one-way trip.