Historically across Western and Asian cultures, people in the Entertainment industry were considered low-status, on par with prostitutes.

Many actors/ singers/ dancers augmented their meager incomes with actual sex work, further conflating public perception of the two vocations.

Entertainers were considered uneducated & untrustworthy outcasts, barely tolerated in polite company.

Loving parents would steer children far away from anyone who made their livelihood performing on a stage, in the same manner they'd steer their family away from brothels.

For most of human history, the vast majority of entertainers were either orphans/ those who escaped from abusive families and unable to secure apprenticeships in a legitimate trade ...or the lowborn children of adult entertainers, pressed to earn.

Today, all that is reversed.

We idolize people whose most distinguishing talent is their ability to cry on command, or sing catchy lyrics written by someone else ... or be alluring enough to arouse the lust of the masses.

Those who would have been streetwalkers in a former era are feted with money and fame.

As a society, we're relentlessly fed breathlessly reports on their wealth and fortune, expensive fashion choices of these overpaid false idols and excruciating details their revolving-door "dating" lives/drug habits/harebrained political opinions fed to them by their handlers.

True Elites understand the Entertainment industry for the toxic minefield that it is and eschew it for themselves and their own children.

While striver parents w disposable income drive their children to audition after audition, to be evaluated by pedo directors/talent agents.

Take two societies - one whose children to aspire to be astronauts, and the other whose children aspire to put on costumes, cry on command and sing others' songs.

In 25 years, which society will be stronger/wealthier/more powerful? https://www.oregonlive.com/living/2019/07/americans-kids-dream-of-being-youtube-stars-chinese-children-want-to-explore-outer-space-poll.html