"... the heroes will wind up being the confident, the well-connected, and those with preparatory privilege more often than the most intelligent or capable."
So why is this not fair? Intelligence, like confidence or socioeconomic status, is also not fairly distributed. Only about 5% of the general population will have an IQ above 125, so not even genius level but already heavily skewed. We can probably assume that this number is slightly higher for a population that make a career in IT... but intelligence is still not a given, why should it be considered more "fair"?
In any case, the 2nd point is a non-issue; incompetent people are rarely considered "heroes", so it's a bit of a self-correcting system in the end.
So why is this not fair? Intelligence, like confidence or socioeconomic status, is also not fairly distributed. Only about 5% of the general population will have an IQ above 125, so not even genius level but already heavily skewed. We can probably assume that this number is slightly higher for a population that make a career in IT... but intelligence is still not a given, why should it be considered more "fair"?
In any case, the 2nd point is a non-issue; incompetent people are rarely considered "heroes", so it's a bit of a self-correcting system in the end.