Replying to Why do kids care so much about sponsorship?

These days there are at least 5 posts a day with some 12 year old wanting to be sponsored. They all just want sponsors, money, clothes....blah blah blah. There are race kids at my mountain who all have like 5 sponsors from hookit.com. These kids can't ski that well, and the ones that can will peak early and it won't matter if they're sponsored...why would a kid younger than 18 really NEED to be sponsored? If you are really good, I see the reason you may want it, I see the guys like Nick Goepper are only 19 and in the Olympics but most kids aren't that good. Why do kids these days care so much about sponsors? I say just ski and have fun, wait a little and when you have decent skills, a good edit, and can actually do stuff for the betterment of the company and then see where you can go. What do you guys think about these kids?