Somewhere along the line, however, the rich dropped from the ranks of professional sports and top-tier amateur athletics almost entirely.
Because as sports became lucrative careers, as opposed to expensive hobbies, young hungry people applied themselves to the fullest in sports as their ticket to upward mobility.
Sports, in turn, lost their cachet and prestige (Prole-drift) and the rich went to find other activities with high barrier of entry, like golf, car collection, yachting, high-stakes gambling or even newer types of toy businesses (film, media, fashion, etc.) and finance to channel their competitive drives.
Why is Vanity Fair asking stupid questions they don't intend to answer?
Because as sports became lucrative careers, as opposed to expensive hobbies, young hungry people applied themselves to the fullest in sports as their ticket to upward mobility.
Sports, in turn, lost their cachet and prestige (Prole-drift) and the rich went to find other activities with high barrier of entry, like golf, car collection, yachting, high-stakes gambling or even newer types of toy businesses (film, media, fashion, etc.) and finance to channel their competitive drives.
Why is Vanity Fair asking stupid questions they don't intend to answer?