That was beautifuly put, Love!

We could construct a similar narrative about crony capitalism, where everything is fine until the lower scoring candidates discover that the A grades were all obtained through cheating. As long as it is believed that the race goes to the swift, people put the effort in, but what incentive is there, when they discover that, no matter how much effort they put in, they only ever be awarded an F? Look at income distribution; it follows a Pareto distribution, by which the greatest determinant of wealth is wealth itself. If income distribution followed merit, we should expect a classic Gaussian bell curve income distribution. All -isms are essentially static ideas and therein lies the problem; societies must adapt to circumstances, not seek some idiot's vision of utopia. All static societies will end up as living hells of one form or another.