We Pay Our Stars Too Much Money By Gladwell Summary

We live in an era of time-space compression just as Marx predicted with his annihilation of time and space, where technological and economic advances have apprehended our world. The shrinking of our world is not only as a result of innovation, but also because of a process of capitalist commodity production and massive capital accumulation (Harvey 1989). Moreover, with the shrinking of time and space, even our intrinsic human values and principles have shriveled. The once revolutionary shift from a strictly exploitative natural resource based economy to a human talent acquisition has begun its demise. Nowadays not only do we pay talents excessive amounts of money, but also we enforce the status quo, that allows for the deepening of structural classism. In attempting to answer the question of why we pay our stars too much money, I shall argue that it is because of the consumerist culture we have built around our needs desires of belonging, and esteem. The conflictual problem not long ago was between egotistical capitalistic behavior and labor rights, which resulted in a creative destructionist ideology of rewarding and incentivizing human talent. Nonetheless, today the same talent that overthrew arrogant Capital has grabbed our society to its whims, equating that of
What is interesting in the descriptive story is that Gladwell suggests using other academic sources that talent transformation happened as a result of changed relational models in the professional world. Visionary leaders such as Miller and others foresaw the bargaining power talent had on capital and fostered the idea of negotiating with capital to benefit talent greatly. Miller’s prominence was to envision a labor market where the worker is not exploited and used as a mere property. He elaborated this even further by realizing the scarcity of talent and its ability to intimidate the fortress of