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Law and medicine aren’t winner take all fields so that’s not a fair comparison. Should 80% of authors be able to make a living from their book sales? Athletes?
by serjester 6y ago
Law and medicine aren’t winner take all fields so that’s not a fair comparison. Should 80% of authors be able to make a living from their book sales? Athletes? Social media CEO’s?
Fair or not fair is subjective. In my opinion you shouldn’t go into fields with heavy power law dynamics unless you’re comfortable with a very high likelihood of coming out a ‘failure’.
At least it’s gotten more meritocratic than in years past.
- TheOtherHobbes 6y agoThis is confusing cause and effect. Should 80% of middle managers be able to make a living from their work? Politicians? Bankers? Investors? Backend developers? The fact that there's no question that these people are somehow magically worth it, while musicians and artists somehow magically aren't, is a symptom of the covert beliefs that define value, not a cause of them. Realistically this is just a different kind of social credit - and no less brutal than the Chinese kind, even though the values are (somewhat) different.
- satyrnein 6y agoPeople might think developers should be able to make a living from their work, but that doesn't translate into thinking that developers somehow "deserve" to make a living selling apps on the App Store. One is a job, the other is being an entrepreneur. Most entrepreneurs fail, of all kinds. I don't think it's a value judgement on art or music.