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- W4307687309 abstract "This chapter develops the argument that the American Dream, in its contemporary incarnation, revolves around the notion that talent is and ought to be leading in shaping societal success. In a meritocratic society, success is determined by talent and hard work. Public and elite appraisal of talent misrecognizes the fact that talent itself is not meritocratically deserved. Talent is produced by three processes, none of which are meritocratic: (1) talent is unequally distributed by the rigged lottery of birth, (2) talent is defined in ways that favor some traits over others, and (3) the market for talent is manipulated to maximally extract advantages by those who have more of it. To see how we require a sociological perspective on economic rent. I argue that talent is a major means through which people seek rent in modern-day America. Talent today is what inherited land was to feudal societies; an unchallenged source of symbolic and economic rewards. Whereas God sanctified the aristocracy's wealth, contemporary privilege is legitimated by meritocracy. Drawing on the work of Gary Becker, Pierre Bourdieu, and Jerome Karabel, I show how rent-seeking in contemporary US has come to rely principally on rent definition and creation. Inequality is produced by the ways in which talent is defined, institutionalized, and sustained by the moral deservingness attributed to the accomplishments of talents. Consequently, today's inequalities are as striking as ever, yet harder to challenge than ever before." @default.
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- W4307687309 title "Earning Rent with Your Talent" @default.
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