... Most of the top-paid
people in the media are "writers" whom the public are deceived to
believe do all the researching and writing of "their" material. The
actual writers (usually called "research assistants," or sometimes
just "interns"), unlike these bosses, lack the connections to be able
to succeed "on their own," and are therefore obscure workers for
these aristocrats -- the writing-stars who make the big incomes. If one of
these workers bows down sufficiently to his boss so as to be plucked by him to
become a star "on his own," then that lucky acolyte will almost
certainly share the existing hierarchical values of his boss, and so may become
a new aristocrat in the full sense, and go on to produce his own reputation,
and perhaps even dynasty. But the others will never win the connections and
thus the money...
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