> But the process runs into the same failure mode as Adderall prescriptions: it combines an insistence > on gatekeepers with a total lack of interest over whet

> But the process runs into the same failure mode as Adderall prescriptions: it combines an insistence > on gatekeepers with a total lack of interest over whether they actually gatekeep. The end result is > a gatekeeping cargo cult, where you have to go through the (expensive, exhausting) motions of asking > someone’s permission, without the process really filtering out good from bad applicants. And the end > result of that is a disguised class system, where anyone rich and savvy enough to engage with the > gatekeeping process gets extra rights, but anyone too poor or naive to access it has to play by the > normal, punishingly-restrictive rules. What a fantastic point. Well put, and it rings true for so many systems I interact with in life.