Comment by survirtual

There are explicit and implicit aspects of connectivity.

Explicit are things like racism, lineage requirements (like Ivy leagues asking if you have family that attended), etc.

Implicit are things like growing up in poverty and not having the knowledge, access to mentors, or access to the money to secure ideas.

The rich and connected have access to everything to buy and secure ideas. They can even buy people and take their ideas for themselves without proper compensation, because generally, creators are not negotiators.

It is a rigged system that empowers slavers.

People in poverty, for example, expend significantly more energy to develop a creative mindset, and have little to no energy for negotiation and navigating legal frameworks. So because of this, they relinquish that power to abusers who benefit for their relative disability.

I could write a book about this but if you think it through, it is clear. You could also paste my comment into AI and have a discussion about it.