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At your level of resolution, they're different things, but if you zoom out even further, they're the same. A gifted and talented person or persons worked really hard and produced a thing. Whether that's insulin, USB, Bohemian Rhapsody, or the French Laundry is besides the point. Why should one area be treated any differently than the other?

If society really wanted to wring every possible invention out of inventors, we'd lock them in the basement and give them a workshop but instead we let them loose on YouTube so they can try to become Internet famous.

What great works of art are we missing out on because someone needed to work a job for money instead? What great works are we missing out on because someone was successful, made a bunch of money, and didn't have to work again?

You're totally right about specialization and people getting into traps as a founder.



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