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My point once again is that the whole "real bass players play with their fingers belief" was not originally based on snobbery for the sake of snobbery, but more based on the idea that the bass because it has thicker strings (meant for fingers not plectrums) focusses on the bass aspect of the...

That's why bass players and drummers develop calluses. I didn't see a pick anywhere in the segment that you posted.

Historically speaking I think that the reason the finger style only view existed has more to do with the origin and evolution of the electric bass guitar rather than it being a form of snobbery. Originally the whole reason the electric bass guitar was created was so that upright players (who...