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> Reality is unfair for distributing cognitive ability and grit the way it does

...with a strong correlation towards one's familial socioeconomic rank?



Rich parents will find a way one way or another. This would punish smart-but-poor kids only.

Should we have universities take students by lottery, god forbid they will enforce correlation with socioeconomic rank? Should we make companies hire by lotterry? We have to start treating people by their abilities at one point or another.




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