MJ is worth lebih now that he is gone?

I know this is a touchy topic, I feel guilty even thinking about it & knowing that it's true... but this is part of an artikel on Yahoo that just came out today (Oct. 25, 2010):

Michael Jackson never graced Forbes' annual Celebrity 100 daftar during his life. In death, the King of Pop earned lebih in the past tahun than any bintang on that list, apart from Oprah Winfrey.
It was enough to secure Jackson the No. 1 spot on our 10th annual Top-Earning Dead artis list. With gross earnings of $275 million, he earned lebih than the other 12 deceased stars on the daftar combined. Still lebih impressive: His estate's 12-month haul was greater than the pooled earnings of this year's two biggest living acts, U2 and AC/DC. Jackson's posthumous earnings come from his stake in the lucrative Sony/ATV catalog, the hit Sony film "This Is It" and renewed fan interest in music, videos, and all things Michael Jackson.
"The death of Michael Jackson really put a focus on -- crassly, quite frankly -- what someone's worth when they're deceased," says David Reeder, vice president of Corbis' GreenLight, which manages the personality rights for Albert Einstein and Steve McQueen, among other dead celebrities. "In a lebih positive way, it exposed consumers to this idea that there actually is a market for, and an enduring legacy for, these people."

What do anda think? Is there someone to blame, should we as fan feel bad about it, is this a positive atau negative thing & why? I know there isn't anything we can do about it but still... All of this would have been better if MJ was alive and I just feel so much guilt... :/