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>I wonder why no-one seems to have come up with some variety
>of the traditional human way of selecting the recipients of a
>limited number of goods, responsibilities, tasks, etc.--random
>selection (like jurors being chosen by lot, or the conspirators
>in Un Ballo In Mascara drawing straws to select the assassin
>of Gustav III?
>
If you distribute goods at random you will have no better than random chance that they will end up with who needs them or wants them. Congrats, Shane, you just won a set of Olympic weights for the week! I got a dialysis machine! Kelly, you have a weeks' supply of Viagra! Beethoven, you get the CD player, Homer, you have the Mona Lisa. Etc. You see the problem. jks jks
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