>Instead, admit qualified (TM) people based on a blind lottery If people have different aptitudes, and resources are limited, allocating resources randomly, in

>Instead, admit qualified (TM) people based on a blind lottery If people have different aptitudes, and resources are limited, allocating resources randomly, instead of at least trying to optimize long term prospects, will result almost surely result in reduced quality of life for all in the long run. I don't find that moral. The vast improvements in quality of life, even for the very poor and unskilled, in advanced countries over the last few centuries, is the result of allocating capital (human, financial, material) in better ways than random over time. The countries and groups that have tried other forms of resource allocation have historically done far worse. Random (blind lottery) allocation seems worse than almost all of those systems.