Strange, I was just thinking about this story yesterday...<p>The best stories are puzzles of neverending questions. I'm finally satisfied with most of my answers to Harrison Bergenon, but then I started wondering: when the weights are removed, why is the selection of dancers actually good? Wouldn't they be weighed down during their auditions too? And their practice and training? Why did it turn out that the dancers that remained are the highest skilled?<p>In any case, I'm pretty satisfied with my own answers to the Harrison Bergenon puzzle: yes, we should give people artistic, leadership, and engineering roles based on their merit. We should even reward those who can do these jobs at a high level. But maybe the difference in rewards doesn't need to be quite so enormous. So Jeff Bezos gets more money than I do, but maybe not 100,000 times as much money. Maybe just 100x is ok.
Felt really similar in tone to the movie Brazil for some reason. That sense of dystopian jollyness where the universe is uncaring even to a righteous cause. I guess this is where the saying banality of evil comes from.