>First, they are probably good at something, and therefore are likely not poor. The wider world is not a meritocracy. The United States isn't even remotely a m

>First, they are probably good at something, and therefore are likely not poor. The wider world is not a meritocracy. The United States isn't even remotely a meritocracy. There is a prevailing ideology that depends upon this presumption of meritocracy, but that's all you can say.