Not to mention, being a "jerk" has precious little to do with your ability to do good research. Some of the most earth shattering members of their fields were

Not to mention, being a "jerk" has precious little to do with your ability to do good research. Some of the most earth shattering members of their fields were infamously unpopular with their peers. Kurt Gödel, George Cantor and Albert Einstein were all responsible for massive fundamental shifts in the understanding of there respective fields, but were all deeply unpopular outsiders, and would be much less likely to get funded under a system like this.