> best universities are meant educate the highest achieving kids. That's how they keep being the best universities. The middle achieving kids can go to the midd

> best universities are meant educate the highest achieving kids. That's how they keep being the best universities. The middle achieving kids can go to the middle universities; there are plenty and there is a whole gradient of them. How is what you described in any way incompatible with lottery systems? Did you not catch the phrase "So find the right bar and do lottery?" The best colleges set the higher bars, middle schools set a middle bar, etc etc. > Do we live in a meritocracy or not? Absolutely not. That's the lie we've been told all our lives by the haves. But either way, the lottery is more meritocratic: you have one seat, two people who are both qualified, how do you choose? Merit has already been established! After that, the lottery doesn't care about race, age, etc etc.