This is the definition I am using:

a system, organization, or society in which people are chosen and moved into positions of success, power, and influence on the basis of their demonstrated abilities and merit.

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    9 months ago

    Brilliant mathematicians get rewarded with what?

    More mathematical problems. And ideally, also lots of money and babes.

    Bony fingers!