But doesn't his experience address cultural and social rank you are referring to? His comedian wanted to succeed as a comedian, not necessarily become super rich, just focus on comedy, and improve their comedy. He thought giving them money would give them that freedom to do that, and not have to focus on distracting things.

But once earning a living was no longer necessary, they not only didn't care about earning a living, because they didn't need to, they no longer cared about improving their social ranks as skilled and talented comedians. Is that kind of the point?

I just still don't see how they are divorced.