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While what you say is true to a degree the part youâre leaving out is that the kids who donât have actor/musician/doctor/etc parents are still perfectly capable of learning these things.
Theyâre arguably better to bring into the various fields to challenge entrenched perspectives that get perpetuated by systems of momentum that you describe. In acting itâs what creates what led to metoo, in medicine itâs what creates wildly unfair work expectations and elitism, mainly because the old guard did it that way, and if you question the entrenched power âitâs because thatâs the way we do thingsâ. New blood is arguably more likely to push back against this because they arenât as conditioned to play into the system from birth.
The other part that you leave out, as a result, is that these nepo kids then get an unfair advantage. Take kid A - a nepobaby like Kate winslets son, and kid B, just some kid who was obsessed with acting and writing. Letâs say your perspective is true and the nepobaby kid is obsessed with acting and writing in a wild environment of access to intense creative minds. But kid b is no slouch either, living and breathing acting and writing, constantly accessing whatever mentors they can, watching content online giving advice on process, and most importantly just constantly writing (or playing, acting, whatever) for years and years and years.
Theyâre both immensely talented individuals at this point. But whatâs the difference? Kid A has connections capital to make films and eventually to production deals if they are any good. Kid B, at best, can scrape together a few grand to make a student film because theyâre not affluent and their circle of peers is also broke. Even if they scrape together something noteworthy they have no connections whatsoever to industry.
In more extreme examples itâs a mediocre singer getting connected to hitmaker producers and media promotion while there are 10,000 excellent artists on Spotify with under 1,000 streams because they donât have the capital to professionally record and promote their shit
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I edited the post to further acknowledge that I'm not talking about the advantage of parents being connected in the industry. Which I mention in the first paragraph of my post. It's a larger problem in the entertainment industry than most because that industry is so cut-throat and competitive and frankly because more than most industries mediocre talent can be mitigated by the dozens of other people working with them to make the product, not to mention the ability of marketing to exalt people who might not deserve it. Rereading your post it seems you were responding exclusively to that which I thought was pretty clearly not the subject of my post.
I was simply acknowledging the fact that things like passion, obsession, and talent are all things that are heavily influenced by parents. Kid A could be intrinsically worse at music than Kid B (for as much as we know about nature vs nurture) but if Kid A has musician parents who encourage lessons, or even teach the kid themselves from a very young age and Kid B only discovers their passion on their own in high school or later. Kid A will probably always be a better musician due to a form of nepotism.
While I agree that that's existentially unfair, and maybe we can create a world where all children are given identical education so that we only get the best of the best in every field, I think it's a bit wack to say Kid A doesn't deserve to express their art or even outshine Kid B because they tragically grew up in a music-obsessed family.