the thing about opposition to ranking/grading is that its reducto ad absurdum is a world quite similar to that which hard collectivists desire; w/o a way to determine priority in a resource constrained world, everyone gets an equal split of a single much smaller pie
suboptimal
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RT @nickcammarata
It’s messed up that we’re “graded” by authority figures every day starting from six years old. Kids that young aren’t capable of compart…
https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/1390439052910940160
while material scarcity remains (& it still does, esp. considering logistical difficulties), it's simply delusional to imagine that its possible to operate a civilization w/o "unfair" distinctions based on the lottery of birth; some people are much more skilled than others
how do we decide who should be in charge of various critical functions w/o discrimination? would you be okay w/ your surgeon being picked from the population at random?
perhaps if we accept reality, rather than ignore it, we can work to improve on it
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RT @chaosprime
so lovely, Nick's sunnily generous assumption that this impression is somehow mistaken rather than being an example of the children having a better idea of what's going…
https://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1390491406930784264