This is all worse now, as the educational and institutional bulwarks of middle-class meritocracy in creative work are undercut, the nepotism grows shameless, AI companies are stealing every creative asset they can find, and the rewards for success are concentrated into fewer and fewer hands.
Reposted from Alex Steffen
This thread is advice I'd like to give to every middle- or working-class kid out there who's trying to make it in any creative or intellectual field in America today.

Refuse to internalize the unspoken class warfare and hidden opportunity hoarding you will certainly encounter....

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