No. There are a whole lot more people with high-prestige educations than there are “prominent posts”. I don’t know a thing particularly about Rubin, but I’m pretty sure that, like Clinton, he’s neither more nor less qualified for prominent positions than hundreds of his classmates, and the reason why he and she are on a different career track than their classmates are is their parents rather than any particular individual excellence.
This is the smallest of possible justice issues — the people who are qualified on paper for the jobs that get handed to Clinton and Rubin are doing just fine doing something else. But it still burns me having Sorkin patiently explain that the children of the powerful are running things because of their objectively judged merit.
via Unfogged.
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