No matter how much you might wish it, a purely meritocratic system is not possible, not when there are people involved. There will always be subjectivity and bi

No matter how much you might wish it, a purely meritocratic system is not possible, not when there are people involved. There will always be subjectivity and biases. SV is more meritocratic than most other industries, and I do believe that most people in SV honestly try to be impartial, but that doesn't actually pan out a lot of the time.