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Reward you for what? Just existing and being smart? Being smart has nothing to do with whether people actually care about the goals of whatever "system". Just
by gsatic 4y ago
Reward you for what? Just existing and being smart? Being smart has nothing to do with whether people actually care about the goals of whatever "system".
Just have to spend a few days on Wall St or SV to work that out.
- naasking 4y agoReward you with opportunities to use your smarts for something productive or useful.
- jl6 4y agoAlso consider that a pure intelligence-based meritocracy would be intensely dystopic. You would have a rigid hierarchy, with the added sting that those at the bottom would deserve to be there and it would be morally righteous to keep them there.
- 082349872349872 4y agoThat's part (the first half-to-2/3?) of 1984. Winston Smith is in the outer party because he didn't do well enough on his A levels to do the oxbridge classics route for the inner party, so he becomes bitter and paranoid. full stop.