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[quote=Anonymous]Top talent in the US rides for free and do so from very early ages.   There are no barriers for top talent other than the relatively small pool of top talent, which makes it difficult to develop more quickly.  Given the DMV, it's not surprising that everybody wants to approach this like a policy problem, and compare institutional models and outcomes to infer what might be an appropriate or better model for the US, with humans presumed to be vessels of equal ability and incentive all waiting like lab rates to be put under ideal institutional conditions.  It is comical to think that this is a problem worth much  thought for 99.9% of people with so many other problems out there, but here we are.  It is also comical to think that anybody has any top-down control or authority to change the way everything is done at the national or state or even local level.  That isn't how any of this works.  Some institutional models may work better than others, but in the US, the problem is a deep-seated cultural one, with most talent playing and following other sports.  At some point, the ability to succeed is the result of cultural and individual factors that overwhelm institutional design.  And at the end of the day, nobody has the ability or right to eliminate pay to play.

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