Yeah, it makes a lot of sense for that sort of power to be a dice roll. If the system is completely deterministic then people start gaming it and the result is politics. It is better to allow the dice to roll than to mandate everyone goes with a bad choice.

I see a call in your comment for rewards to be given out of innate qualities rather than observed outcomes. If you have a method for determining that; how about we do a small trial in politics first - where it would do more good - and argue about how well it worked? There is no evidence in my view that it is possible to determine people's innate qualities from a distance. The difference between a genius and a fool is too slim. It is doubtful that there has ever been a method to do that which worked.

Between, say, the American way of embarrassing riches and the EU way of equality I note one didn't produce many tech companies.