>"There cannot exist even a model of a society where people succeed based purely on how "good" they are that also doesn't discriminate, since sorting the "good"

>"There cannot exist even a model of a society where people succeed based purely on how "good" they are that also doesn't discriminate, since sorting the "good" from the "bad" is itself an act of discrimination." I think this is a very important point, that optimization is inseparable from distribution. Daron Acemoglu also makes this point very well (when he talks about different political regimes).