> Those with the best grades and thus highest rank would be given the best opportunities for wage-slave class work
I don't believe that this observation is true. Those who got into tech, bitcoins etc. at the right time got the lambos - not the most brilliant ones. Tech is full people with inert brains who make much much more mone than some of the most brilliant scientists out there.
It has been good time to be into plumbing instead of astrophysics if you are optimising for money BTW. Just like knowing ReactJS has provided better income opportunities than being rocket scientist.
> Just like knowing ReactJS has provided better income opportunities than being rocket scientist.
that's because rocket science requires massive capital investment for said scientist to achieve anything - this aint no more backyard rocketry in the modern day.
ReactJS provides better income because it does not require massive capital investments on the dev to produce usable output.
The idea that societal benefit should match financial benefit is just a story made up because of the inclination that people who are moral should be rewarded etc. It has no economic basis.
I don't believe that this observation is true. Those who got into tech, bitcoins etc. at the right time got the lambos - not the most brilliant ones. Tech is full people with inert brains who make much much more mone than some of the most brilliant scientists out there.
It has been good time to be into plumbing instead of astrophysics if you are optimising for money BTW. Just like knowing ReactJS has provided better income opportunities than being rocket scientist.