Comment by jdprgm
1 day ago
If the top students are doing better, especially if it is significantly better, I think that can be a net positive outcome. If you look at the distribution of contribution to society it's not like it's remotely even and there is an argument to primarily focusing on and pouring most of our resources into the top Nth percent instead of trying to slightly improve everyone.
Democracy gets in the way of that. If the median voter declines enough, nobody will have nice things.