I’d call it life. People are born with talents and advantages. There’s nothing thing fair about that. It just is
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3/ but there’s a whole other set of reasons that full under a different category. And that’s that the whole game of “getting into an elite school” was set up with rules that explicitly favor the rich in the same way that basketball explicitly favors the tall
No, that’s not it. My point is that no pure meritocracy will ever be fair. And any fair system will have to do more than just maximize “merit.” We have to make a choice. Even sports has rules that limits the players ability to physically dominate each other