> Either you’re born an artist or you’re not. Either you’re gifted at art or you’re not, which is true of everything else, sports, coding. Either you’re gifted

> Either you’re born an artist or you’re not. Either you’re gifted at art or you’re not, which is true of everything else, sports, coding. Either you’re gifted as a coder or not. What a strange claim to be opening your case with. Elitist and defeatist at the same time. And patently false: education improves skills much more than it signals existing ones, and it accounts for so much of the variation not only in financial but other outcomes [0]. And just No to the idea that because you represent an artist's union you get to decide who's gifted at art and who isn't. [0] https://repec-cepeo.ucl.ac.uk/cepeob/cepeobn12.pdf https://repec-cepeo.ucl.ac.uk/cepeob/cepeobn12.pdf