Nope. It’s the best example. It’s flooded with people who couldn’t afford to play the sport as kids if it wasn’t for the leagues spreading money around to get as many kids as possible in the jr sports. Most of the players in the NFL could never have afforded the equipment if it wasn’t for the programs the NFL funds. So they never would have been NFL players. Investment, return.
Actually poor and rural DO NOT dominate tech right now. Not poor and urban dominate tech. Because computers, kind of like football pads, are expensive, and poor kids don’t get to get into that stuff.
We played sandlot in both FB and BB as kids, touch, flag, sometimes tackle without equipment, when the leagues were virtually all white
Although all of us dreamed to play in the big leagues, it was not being athletically built that kept us out, not that there weren’t organized Little Leagues
Instead, most of us went on to successful white collar careers because we had what it took. And not with tutors, test prep courses.
And when both professional schools and the professions “expanded the base” thru reverse discrimination, the market squeezed the inefficients out, which was most of them.