The broken aspects of academia are, it seems to me, an unavoidable consequence of needing a scalable system to determine who is doing well and who isn&#x27;t, so you can give them money. I don&#x27;t see how to dream up a system that gives you all the good of academia with none of the annoyances.<p>Think how hard the hiring problem is. How do you hire the best people? How do you assess someone&#x27;s quality based on a few bits of paper and a short interview. Allocating funding in academia consists of solving problems like that, all the time.