I’m beginning to think drawing straws is more fair. Just like math/science, your initial conditions set your future course in life. If our goal is to provide e

I’m beginning to think drawing straws is more fair. Just like math/science, your initial conditions set your future course in life. If our goal is to provide equal opportunity than we can’t overlook that. In a different time, the fact that the wealthiest people went to the best schools and ended up with the best positions and highest paying jobs would have been taken for granted. We now try to sell ourselves as a meritocracy, but this meritocracy is easily gamed with wealth. Furthermore, there may be a “gifted” few who are born with natural talents and abilities. But these few are still relying on chance of the right conditions at their birth. The last group that we aspire to reward are those that in spite of poor initial conditions and no innate talent succeed through hard work and determination. However is this a valuable goal? It would disadvantage those born in better circumstances which is no fault of those individuals. We harm some to better others, which is ethically problematic.