I agree completely but it seems to be a game theory thing. It works better if everyone is happy but you can leech the system and disproportionally benefit of it without doing your part for it as long as the system does not collapse due to your actions.
I guess the worlds has some space for people who can be rewarded enormously through the work of the long tail and everything collapses when the number of people who act in that way passes the acceptable threshold.
Like, it's O.K. to have a royal family and bunch of elites around them who engage only in high life stuff like poetry, paintings and politics but you can't have half of the population be painters, poets and the other half work the land and have no life so to feed the elite half.
I think there was article on HN some time ago about the tolerable percentage of knights in the society.
I guess the worlds has some space for people who can be rewarded enormously through the work of the long tail and everything collapses when the number of people who act in that way passes the acceptable threshold.
Like, it's O.K. to have a royal family and bunch of elites around them who engage only in high life stuff like poetry, paintings and politics but you can't have half of the population be painters, poets and the other half work the land and have no life so to feed the elite half.
I think there was article on HN some time ago about the tolerable percentage of knights in the society.