"As a relative performance becomes more important than absolute output in determining compensation, an ever more important occupation will be that of the agent, not merely for the highly paid performer, like a football star or an opera singer, but also for persons of modest skills, who may welcome help in landing a paying position."
This is another of the controversial implications from
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age![](http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=whisp-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0684832720)
by James Dale Davidson & Lord William Rees-Mogg, Simon & Schuster, 1997
Is it really so?