Why stop at the students, choose the professors by lottery too, Nih grants by lottery… May as well just burn limited resources. Lottery math doesn’t work. Someone has to fund the lotteries. And lotteries funding lotteries ain’t going to do it. Someone has to actually produce something of value for there to be value to allocate.

I think the argument here is that once you've already filtered down to qualified candidates by primary criteria, then you can lottery off the rest instead of performing a secondary sort.

I guess the secondary sort is reserved for university, with a tertiary sort waiting at the corporate level. the heavy lifting is being done by the sorting, not the lottery at each level.