How can the Alliance’s system retain its vitality and maintain a decent upward mobility channel for its lower-class people under a highly centralized system?
This is a crucial and exceedingly challenging matter.
Having an upward mobility channel is not sothing achieved by re words.
In the early days when the Alliance was established, a large group of people who fought together now occupy high positions, forming a new Interest Group.
The Interest Group within the Alliance is relatively straightforward. The level system dictates everything; whether it’s welfare subsidies or power and status, they are clearly linked to this system. Although so people have certain incos outside the level system, it is not the mainstream of this society.
Thus, the so-called Interest Group in the current Alliance refers to those occupying high positions within the level system. The sources are sowhat complex, the most significant and fundantally rooted being those who fought alongside the expansion and economic developnt of the Alliance. Another important component is the original aristocrats from various worlds who actively integrated into the Alliance’s system during this process.
After decades of developnt within the Alliance, there’s a noticeable convergence between these two groups. The fundantal reason is that any Interest Group naturally has the tendency to stabilize its collective interests once it secures its position.
The current upward channels in the Alliance primarily involve two paths: acquiring educational credentials as a stepping stone to enter higher positions within the social system, and then obtaining promotion through work performance within the system.
Alternatively, one might directly exhibit an outstanding performance at work, be promoted, receive educational opportunities for further training, and after additional training, use the résumé and performance to climb higher.
These two paths are not mutually exclusive or, rather, are two sides of the sa coin. However, the forr emphasizes rapidly advancing the positions of young geniuses, while the latter focuses on the ergence of late bloors through accumulated experience.
In theory, within the Alliance’s system, even those without background or from ordinary origins, as long as they have talent and capability, these paths should enable them to stand out from the crowd.
However, this is rely the ideal scenario.
In practice, the upward mobility channels within the Alliance, though much smoother compared to most of the Empire’s society, can still be clogged by those who have preemptively secured their positions in the Interest Group.
Their actions are not particularly egregious. Openly monopolizing the advancent channels is not tolerated within the Alliance.
However, there are so thods that are beyond reproach.
Education? Just quietly raise the cost of education.
Acting through administrative orders would be too conspicuous; they often start by giving advanced education to nieces, nephews, and close juniors. With substantial family wealth, they can lead significantly during the foundational stage compared to children of civilians.
On this basis, while there are indeed geniuses among the children of the civilian class, given the larger population base, they can have the advantage in the proportion admitted into various academies. However, when it cos to the likelihood of success, the descendants of high-level individuals are certainly much stronger.
This is precisely sothing one cannot dispute.
Even Gu Hang must acknowledge that since this is about selecting talent, if soone truly invests in education and produces talents, it is impossible for academies to favor granting more spots to the civilian class during admissions, as that would, in turn, be unfair.
In fact, Gu Hang does not view talents differently based on their background. As long as they can contribute to the great cause of the Alliance, they should be accorded due respect, regardless of who they are.
For those so-called ’Interest Groups’ who occupy positions through educational investnt, Gu Hang not only does not suppress them but rather encourages it. Especially for those within this bracket who were originally aristocrats from various worlds, their actions clearly signal a willingness to positively integrate into the Alliance’s system.
But there is a kind of behavior that may not work.
Investing in education, enabling their descendants to enter a good academy within the Alliance’s educational system, and then securing a good position... the successors of these aristocrats, due to possessing richer educational resources and broader insights, indeed have a higher success probability compared to ordinary people. Yet broadly, they compete in a fair environnt. The vast number of civilian class individuals strive on this path, and despite the many advantages of aristocratic descendants, geniuses and highly determined individuals from the civilian ranks erge victorious often.
The race track is too congested.
Naturally, so additional tactics are resorted to unwillingly.
For instance, so-called ’reserved spots’.
To enter top academies or good positions, assessnts are required, aren’t they? They do not dare manipulate the fairness of the assessnts, but they can certainly adjust the content of those assessnts, custom-designing a whole set of special admission conditions for connected candidates.
A certain academy suddenly allocates several special admission spots for a specific Planet, purportedly to support the developnt of local talents;
Not everyone on the Planet can enjoy these spots, but only those specifically from certain areas, owing to contributions made by people from those locations;
Specify gender; restrict the age bracket tightly; impose another condition based on previous special experiences; require the possession of a specific ’special skill’... and so on.
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