How much could one pick winners by simply throwing the force of your big monarchy behind them and then just relying on inertia? If a sufficiently powerful organization is set up as being culturally considered best at something that gives them a possible long-term advantage even if there’s no objective standard by which theirs is better.
How much could one pick winners by simply throwing the force of your big monarchy behind them and then just relying on inertia? If a sufficiently powerful organization is set up as being culturally considered best at something that gives them a possible long-term advantage even if there’s no objective standard by which theirs is better.
Good question. One way of testing it would be to see whether other monarchies have tried anything like it, and if so, whether they succeeded.