Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given a list of integers and an integer k. You need to find the kth smallest element in the input list and return that.

[175, 32, 35, 108, 142, 10, 81, 47, 171, 89, 149, 98, 110, 211, 14, 113, 15, 293, 102, 84], k=16
149