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Suppose you're applying to a company that's posted 10 openings and has already filled 7 of them, and that you belong to category A, and there's three more candidates who belong to category B. Suppose further that it can be objectively determined that you're a better fit for any of the openings than any of the other candidates, but the company has already filled its category A quota. You will be rejected because of your category, and the less capable candidates will be accepted also because of their category.
Note that it doesn't matter how the categories are defined in my example. Maybe you belong to a privileged (in the social justice sense) class, but it's equally possible that you belong to a disadvantaged class and the inept candidates belong to a privileged class.
Basically arbitrary rule. Someone else's personal freedom can begin anywhere according to this statement. It can even begin in your home, doesn't matter whether you live alone or not.
Tell that to my OBC friends who paid 5% of our school fees while they were dropped in Audis.
So someone who got a benefit from the state that addresses a serious, well-proven injustice, and wasn't crawling on their knees and begging for it. Sounds like the system is working.
Even if your anecdote is real, and their use of an Audi indicated they were well able to pay full school fees, so what? We give such benefits to the parents because we want to target the child. Sometimes the parents might make different financial choices, obtain a car that's more than they need. (And you don't know how they got it, whether it's used, or whether they feel they need it to "keep up appearances" with others so peers, like you, don't judge them by their car.)
In any case that's why the benefit is delivered as reduced school fees. TLDR the children aren't the ones who bought the Audi.
That also means they have the resources to compete fairly with their peers and choose not to by invoking their OBC class, which in all practicality has NO affect on their life.
The point was a generation before had reaped the benefits of reservation and anything further was exploitation. That family was not treated, nor lived as an OBC. The system worked, its stoppage is overdue by at least 20 years.
Reservation should be meant to uplift 1-2 generations, I don't see the point in giving reservation beyond that. I've seen so many rich people from lower castes getting into institutions easily and also availing scholarships by faking their parents yearly income. The whole system is rigged to be honest.