Imagine taking successful schools away from children and their families in the name of a cult-like belief like “equity”:

I know an education student who had the opportunity to be paid much-needed income from a school that would satisfy her final requirement for a degree, but her college told her she couldn’t. Other students aren’t being paid, so it wouldn’t be “equitable” to allow her.  Meanwhile, the elementary school in question is having trouble finding teachers and substitutes.

Whether this reflects a progressive social-death cult or the cultish beliefs are cover for corruption in an insider system doesn’t much matter.  A civilization that actively prevents people from maximizing their productivity is doomed to fail.