Those famous artists you mention did rise in the end, though, so that shows the process working rather than failing overall. For every famous artist who strugg

Those famous artists you mention did rise in the end, though, so that shows the process working rather than failing overall. For every famous artist who struggled and then made it big, there are thousands of artists who were treated the same initially but really were crap. That's because a huge number of people want to be artists and 90% of everything is crap. Now suppose that you are trying to make money by enabling artists, and it costs $10,000 to give one a try. If you take a chance on everyone, you will go broke because 90% of everything is crap and your few famous artists won't be enough to subsidize the rest. So how do you filter?