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...subsidizing donations by the wealthy, the federal tax system magnifies this effect and robs the government of money that it could use to further the greater public good. Rather than trying to manage where the rich give their money by determining which charities are “truly deserving?? and which should not merit tax deductible gifts, the government should simply cut its subsidy to donations by the rich and use the additional tax revenue to fund charities that directly help the poor. After all, non-profit organizations in low income neighborhoods are primarily sustained by government...
...society is already a meritocratic paradise. I’m also extremely wary of those who claim that the best way to fix this is to engage in a sort of therapeutic racism that, inevitably, is forced to decide who among the minorities is a “deserving?? minority and who is an “over-represented” one. In theory, admissions should be done the way many elite colleges claim they are conducted: holistically, with no explicit quantitative benefit for certain races. But looking at admissions data, it seems that colleges are giving such...
...then I remembered how I felt about the Oscars. The students filling out their Oscar predictions Sunday, the card checker’s bobbing plastic top hat presiding over them, guessing the candidates whom they found most deserving??knowing full well that the Academy does not always choose the most deserving candidates. Our admiration for the men and women of the Academy does not make us think they are infallible (this is a body, after all, that nominated “The Hours” for nine awards); we don’t hesitate to make...
...everyone’s competent, superficial details become the deciding factors. First-years and sophomores, for example, regardless of how talented, are always at a huge disadvantage to the upperclass students who are “running out of time,” and therefore more “deserving?? of a position. Friendships carry more weight with hirers, as do small meaningless details, such as e-mail grammar. Ability is no longer the determining characteristic where everyone’s able. The Rhodes Scholar applicants who didn’t receive Harvard’s support...
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