That solution just kicks it down the road, and doesn't aolve anything. Unless we find a way to stop giving credibility to the popular and not to the meritorious, we will be talking about this again and again.
Then what is your solution?
You can't stop celebrity from being seen as important, because celebrities occupy a part of our monkey sphere. We never meet them, but we KNOW them because we grew up seeing them, multiple times a year. We subconsciously give these people more of a benefit because we see them part of our circle, regardless of that not being possible on a literal level (most of the time anyways). When an actor we look to as a hero turns out to be smothering kids in his spare time, we take that PERSONALLY, it's seen as a literal betrayal, because deep in our monkey brain we looked to that person as a familiar memory, an old friend.
Ask the average person who the best astrophysicist is, and you will likely hear Neil deGrasse Tyson or Stephen Hawking. Once in a while you might land on a random science nerd that will say someone like Kip Thorne. Of course the first group won't even know who Kip Thorne is, but that isn't the point, they only know the first two guys due to their celebrity status in pop culture and then just assume they must be the best at what they do, otherwise, why would they be so well known?
This is what Trump did. He is a terrible business man that lost all of his dads money, went through six bankruptcies, dozens of failed endeavors (Trump Air, Trump Steaks, etc) and is in extreme debt with various banks and who knows who else. Yet he won the presidency in part because people believed he was a suave, hot business guru, all because he has a reality TV show where he got to say "Your fired!" on camera to a random doofus the producers found in a acting register, and a solid gold apartment in a building it turns out he might not even actually own.
If you can find a way to prevent people from looking at celebrities in that way, at all, through their entire lives, I would love to hear it, but I feel you are going to be unable to do it.
