Economy
Why a string quartet costs more but plays no faster
HERE’S THE INTERESTING PART
Baumol's cost disease is a fascinating quirk where fields with zero productivity growth still become wildly expensive. A violin quartet takes the exact same number of players and minutes to perform Mozart today as it did three centuries ago. Yet their compensation must rise to keep them from quitting and joining the highly efficient tech sector.
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