There really is no meritocracy as such it is just the other name for elitocracy, you know the buddy society that favors corruption. In academia the merits are o

There really is no meritocracy as such it is just the other name for elitocracy, you know the buddy society that favors corruption. In academia the merits are often not assigned objectively even in hard sciences, If you think that everything is based on merits, everything becomes a merit, knowing some famous professor becomes a merit regardless that is because your uncle is his friend. And don't get me started on the elitocracy in politics and other institutions.