That's how it works in China and other East Asian countries, if you ever read the history of Korea, government offices were essentially monopolized by Yangban i

That's how it works in China and other East Asian countries, if you ever read the history of Korea, government offices were essentially monopolized by Yangban in the late Joseon dynasty. Which was basically an aristocratic class of test takers. Meritocracy over a period of time warps into its own form of elitism.