I could be wrong, but despite the astute analysis by Pareto that explains the persistence of elites through "revolutions," he doesn't have too many ideas about

I could be wrong, but despite the astute analysis by Pareto that explains the persistence of elites through "revolutions," he doesn't have too many ideas about how the perfect social mobility that would make societies efficient (governed by the most qualified) can actually be achieved. As I found when covering the revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe, the former Communist elites just transformed into the new post-Communist elites, and in many places (Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, etc) they are literally the same people. Or as the great moral philosopher Peter Townsend once said, "meet the new boss, same as the old boss."