Why is there an assumption that competence is lost by allowing for equal opportunity? We can prioritize equal opportunity and then meritocracy within that. The

Why is there an assumption that competence is lost by allowing for equal opportunity? We can prioritize equal opportunity and then meritocracy within that. There's no need for all this handwringing about loss of quality, when there's been no demonstrable evidence of that. Things get better for a subset of educated people, and nothing gets worse for anyone, but we still get 1000s of comments like the one above.