Bullshit. I keep hearing this and it’s bullshit. It’s scarcity thinking used to shut others out. It’s complete bullshit.

If there’s not enough seats to go around, you build another table.

It’s really that simple.

And it happens. Case in point, let’s look at the writing industry.

First it was only hand written copies very expensive and laborious to produce. Then came the printing press, another metaphorical table.

Then it’s pamphlets which were still somewhat expensive and risky to produce but did not require as many skilled laborers. Writing flourished along with reading.

Then came newspapers. Magazines. Journals. Now you had audiences for your work/enterprise that would buy every publication and support you with a steady stream of income. More specialties developed. Editors. Publishers. An industry was developed that employed thousands. The table expanded.

Then came radio and radio drama. It’s presence did not eliminate books, newspapers, et al. It was just another table. It grew into an industry as well, employing thousands.

Then came television and motion picture. These were new tables for playwrights mostly but there was overlap.

People specialized in advertising so ad copy became a thing and after a while yet another new specialization for writers became its own industry.

Then came the internet. Boy oh boy did the table building ramp up.

Then came social media.

There will be something else next.

You realize that as wealthy as James Patterson is, if he wasn’t so closed minded and learned how to finance his work via the internet or just grew up in the internet age how much MORE wealth he could have achieved or how much faster he could have gotten to 800M?

He did well for himself at his chosen table and there’s nothing wrong with that. But just because he’s now sitting with people who look different than him doesn’t mean that white men are having less opportunity. They’re just all over at the internet buffet gorging themselves.

It’s pretty much still a free for all table.

The demographics have changed. The opportunities have not.