Against All Applications
The &quot;selectopia&quot; example is kind of how it already does work, or at least how it used to, in computer programming, where having an impressive Github account can help one get hired. But it has downsides:<p>- People who want to get hired put low quality projects on their Github which are optimized to look impressive at a first glance.<p>- People spam popular open source projects with low quality pull requests to buff their Github contribution metrics.<p>- People who don&#x27;t have the time to create software for free are put at a disadvantage. Also people who aren&#x27;t passionate about programming enough to have side projects are at a disadvantage (not necessarily bad).<p>I also suspect that this phenomenon is what motivates the development of a lot of the &quot;leftpad&quot; or &quot;is-even&quot; type libraries. Which could be interpreted as either good or bad.