I call that free-market economy.

In the old days, to learn martial arts meant you follow a teacher for decades to learn. Even then, you started out chopping woods as a youngster for your teacher (I guess that was part of the learning curve - to build strength, precision, and humbleness) for years before your are allow to even taught "the moves".

Since the mass migration of Asians to Europe and the New World in the early part of the Twentieth century, many of those martial arts experts realized there was a fortune to make to mass produce students, and Bruce Lee in the seventies just esscalated that process.

I don't see this is a bad thing. If your intention is to learn, it does not matter whethter you have a black belt or not. Black belt is only confined to Karate and Judo, Chinese Kung Fu has no rank whatsoever. A guy spend years learning Kung Fu can still beat someone with a black belt.

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