alt Hacker NewsMostly because the kind of people who run and advocate for programs like this are actively hostile to the idea of merit. Prioritizing talented people would be antithetical to them.
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anigbrowl • today at 1:16 AM
I bet you also think government shouldn't be picking winners and losers.
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Prioritizing merit would be fine if there was some way to measure merit empirically, and if that measure couldn't be gamed by anybody with money and/or connections. But this is for artists, so...