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So are you claiming opportunity is equally distributed? I feel if you "hire for competence", you are going to end up with a highly concentrated group of wealthy people who went to the best schools.

Also, what is your metric for "competence"? You can train people to be computer programmers, but there are many other traits that are impossible to train. Like seeing the world from a perspective different than a middle aged white man, for one.



I think they are saying talent is equally distributed across all humans.

We know opportunity is not.

We know education is not.

Also, competence and "best" schools are not the same.




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