alt Hacker NewsThat would end exactly at "Harrison Bergeron" world as described by Kurt Vonnegut, would it not? If every perceived advantage would require you to wear a "handicap".
That would end exactly at "Harrison Bergeron" world as described by Kurt Vonnegut, would it not? If every perceived advantage would require you to wear a "handicap".
What do you mean? That's 20th century technology. It's making individualized evaluations. The elites wouldn't put up with that. They'd either have to take handicaps themselves or risk people noticing that they don't.
That's the beauty of aggregate statistics. You have some elite job with 100 slots. Before you had 60 of the slots going to cronies and the remainder being allocated on merit. The cronies were disproportionately of the same ethnicity so your statistics are skewed, but don't worry, all the cronies still get their slots. Because statistics can be balanced by getting even more cronies, this time of a different ethnicity, and giving them as many of what used to be the merit slots as you need to manipulate the average. Using statistics is perfect for pretending that you're giving people something when you're actually taking something away.