[karbomusic]

Good points... What's that old line?

"the real talent has no money, and the untalented are rolling in it"

There is an in the weeds side discussion that goes with that. In order to truly be good enough, you almost by default have to have a lack of all other necessary skills (like business and development), often to the point of dysfunction, so it is extremely rare for the talent to have the talent and the business acumen and because of that, it will somewhat always be that way. Talent doesn't have managers and middlemen because they are being screwed (screwed is a byproduct), it's because they usually, literally can't perform that function.