You begin to master something if you do it over and over again. Neurons are arranging towards the various situations of successful action, and you are steadily weeding out errors and inefficiencies with every repetition. This process even has to occur with higher level and organizing skills, so that you have to actually advance into a position of power to continuously carry out these higher skills yourself, firsthand, in order to master them. The carpenter's apprentice may be able to measure and cut wood just fine, but then not have the first idea about how to go about building an entire house. And without access to that responsibility, the apprentice never will.
And again and again you see the elite complaining incessantly about the naivety and foolishness of the young, and that this and that radical political or economic plan will never work, because of the political and economic realities and such and such. Well yes, that state of affairs will likely be maintained so long as the set of resistances put up by the incumbent elite are maintained, and even increased with organizing and concentrating political and economic power, which buttress the elite against competition and challenges emanating from the bottom.
