I edited the post to further acknowledge that I’m not talking about the advantage of parents being connected in the industry. Which I mention in the first paragraph of my post. It’s a larger problem in the entertainment industry than most because that industry is so cut-throat and competitive and frankly because more than most industries mediocre talent can be mitigated by the dozens of other people working with them to make the product, not to mention the ability of marketing to exalt people who might not deserve it. Rereading your post it seems you were responding exclusively to that which I thought was pretty clearly not the subject of my post.

I was simply acknowledging the fact that things like passion, obsession, and talent are all things that are heavily influenced by parents. Kid A could be intrinsically worse at music than Kid B (for as much as we know about nature vs nurture) but if Kid A has musician parents who encourage lessons, or even teach the kid themselves from a very young age and Kid B only discovers their passion on their own in high school or later. Kid A will probably always be a better musician due to a form of nepotism.

While I agree that that’s existentially unfair, and maybe we can create a world where all children are given identical education so that we only get the best of the best in every field, I think it’s a bit wack to say Kid A doesn’t deserve to express their art or even outshine Kid B because they tragically grew up in a music-obsessed family.