Re:Billionaires Build
by yellowapple on Saturday December 05, 2020 @09:16PM
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> if a parent is a musical prodigy, itβs akin to having a fantastic coach at an early age.
...not really. Take it from a musician: performance ability and teaching ability are not as interconnected as you're implying.
And on top of that, even a fantastic coach can't really do much if the one being "coached" has no interest in learning something, or in practicing what one learned.
> As long we live in a free-market society
We don't, and arguably never have. A free market is pretty difficult to achieve when you have existing players motivated to hold onto that wealth and prevent competitors from unseating it.
> social mobility in and out of the upper class is extremely difficult there.
You think it's significantly easier here? Especially with wages tanking relative to cost of living for all but the upper class, I don't see this fixing itself any time soon without one heck of a course correction. We ain't that far off from a European-style regulated society (and indeed, political discourse in the US seems to be pushing for it).
...not really. Take it from a musician: performance ability and teaching ability are not as interconnected as you're implying.
And on top of that, even a fantastic coach can't really do much if the one being "coached" has no interest in learning something, or in practicing what one learned.
> As long we live in a free-market society
We don't, and arguably never have. A free market is pretty difficult to achieve when you have existing players motivated to hold onto that wealth and prevent competitors from unseating it.
> social mobility in and out of the upper class is extremely difficult there.
You think it's significantly easier here? Especially with wages tanking relative to cost of living for all but the upper class, I don't see this fixing itself any time soon without one heck of a course correction. We ain't that far off from a European-style regulated society (and indeed, political discourse in the US seems to be pushing for it).