More to the point, I haven’t seen people try to scale those things either. The closest might be something like TripleByte? Or headhunting companies? Certainly when I think of a typical (or 95th-99th percentile) “person who says they care a lot about meritocracy” I’m not imagining a recruiter, or someone in charge of such a firm. Are you?
I think much of venture capital is trying to scale this thing, and as you said they don’t use the framework you use. The philosophy there is much more oriented towards making sure nobody falls beneath the cracks. Provide the opportunity, then let the market allocate the credit.
That is, the way to scale meritocracy turns out to be maximizing c rather than the other considerations you listed, on current margins.
And then if we say the bottleneck to meritocracy is mostly c rather than a or b, then in fact it seems like our society is absolutely obsessed with making our institutions highly accessible to as broad a pool of talent as possible. There are people who make a whole career out of just advocating for equality.
I think much of venture capital is trying to scale this thing, and as you said they don’t use the framework you use. The philosophy there is much more oriented towards making sure nobody falls beneath the cracks. Provide the opportunity, then let the market allocate the credit.
That is, the way to scale meritocracy turns out to be maximizing c rather than the other considerations you listed, on current margins.
And then if we say the bottleneck to meritocracy is mostly c rather than a or b, then in fact it seems like our society is absolutely obsessed with making our institutions highly accessible to as broad a pool of talent as possible. There are people who make a whole career out of just advocating for equality.