Derik Graham, Chapter 1, question 6

One passage that I found very interesting was the section on the "superstar" phenomenon. I noticed that before this passage the author said that "profit opportunities attract firms like skarks to blood..." and so are we attracted to the most profitable fields of work. I attributed this to us acting in our rational self-interest, more money=more stuff, and that makes sense. Moreover on the superstar phenomenon, I have always recognized the fact that one must be the best in their field to recieve the most pay for their talents, but I never realized the barriers that this creates. If I am inffering correctly from the context of the passage, because the most talented worker gets paid the largest sum of money then as a result there is less profit to provide for more workers, and furthermore makes it all the more difficult for someone well qualified to get a job. This poses a question of whether or not this is fair, but then again as Wheelan stated, capitalism is the lesser of evils, and is more certainly not fair, and if I were to add to that I would say that capitalism is fair, but only to those better suited for competition.