# Dror Poleg - Rise of the 10X Class (Highlights) ![rw-book-cover|256](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article3.5c705a01b476.png) ## Metadata **Cover**:: https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article3.5c705a01b476.png **Source**:: #from/readwise **Zettel**:: #zettel/fleeting **Status**:: #x **Authors**:: [[Dror Poleg]] **Full Title**:: Rise of the 10X Class **Category**:: #articles #readwise/articles **Category Icon**:: 📰 **URL**:: [www.drorpoleg.com](https://www.drorpoleg.com/rise-of-the-10x-class/) **Host**:: [[www.drorpoleg.com]] **Highlighted**:: [[2021-03-13]] **Created**:: [[2022-09-26]] ## Highlights - Salaries in the performing arts sector continued to rise even though the industry as a whole did not become more productive. - Baumol and Bower discovered that costs in some labor-intensive sectors are going up because of productivity improvements in goods-producing sectors. - This dynamic — wage growth in industries with low or limited productivity growth — is now called Baumol’s Cost Disease. - Technology made it possible for “a single outstanding performance” (and performer) to eclipse almost everything and everyone else.