I agree that there are other knobs to bee turned, but housing will most probably get in the way of that, as the people earning 600k per year will chase out of t

I agree that there are other knobs to bee turned, but housing will most probably get in the way of that, as the people earning 600k per year will chase out of the housing market the people who will go with their passion. Similar (and related) discussion when it comes to education, people earning 600k per year will be able to provide better education opportunities to their children compared to the passionate but earning-less-money people, and if you're part of the second group at some point it will become harder and harder to explain to your spouse that your kids won't get the same chances in life compared to your friends' children because you're going for passion over money, unlike said friends. I know that all this sounds very mundane but it's part of day to day life, maybe the Soviets had a good idea when they basically built scientists-only cities in the middle of Siberia or somewhere like that.