The point of my comment was,
replyin much earlier institutions of knowledge and excellence,
the only transparent metric was whether or not they approved you.
That ossifies intellectual monocultures, though. (Or, heaven forbid, if someone has a financial conflict of interest in the private sphere...)
replyThe current solution doesn’t resist capture by capital either,
replyand indeed we’re already left with all of the things claimed - the worst of both worlds, really.