> Aspects that may have little to do with any meritocracy, reasonableness, fairness etc. become the deciding factors...
If you're not presenting an alterative system, then is it still the best one you can think of?
If you're not presenting an alterative system, then is it still the best one you can think of?
Not sure there has been an opportunity to objectively test what are the pros and cons of all the possibilities. The mix of historical happenstance, vested interests, ideology, expedience, habit etc. that determines what is actually happening does not leave much room for observing alternatives.