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Meritocracy is incompetent. It is trust destroying because it's inherently corrupt. The privileged, the elite, control the metric by which merit is defined and
by cmurf 9y ago
Meritocracy is incompetent. It is trust destroying because it's inherently corrupt. The privileged, the elite, control the metric by which merit is defined and judged. They create a system of self-preservation that excludes others who would dilute their control. There is no such thing as privilege, elitism, without exclusion and inferiority. Meritocracy always leads to the very thing it purports to try and avoid: incompetency. And that is why it is incompetent.
- dcow 9y agoI don't necessarily disagree, but I think we need a pretty big overhaul of the way we govern ourselves if we're going to escape it. And the only civil way I can think to do that is to rewrite our constitutions and laws using the guidelines that have been laid out describing how something of that nature is to be done. I don't think it's paralegal corporate enforcement of popular ideologies. I'm willing to entertain a social structure that protects human agency in a world where our traditional means of measuring human value are quickly becoming obsolete, but I think we need a lot more agreement that's the direction we need to head...
- lkerrekfjk 9y ago> Meritocracy is incompetent. So is so called "social justice" and diversity quotas. It leads to an environment of nepotism and corruption where people aren't getting jobs because they are competent but because they have a vagina, are brown or they have the right political stance. The irony of your statement is funny, your goal is just replacing an elite by another, not unlike what happened in Soviet Russia.
- Caveman_Coder 9y agoI posted my experience with this on HN before...it was very disheartening: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=16396441&goto=threads%3Fid%3DCaveman_Coder%2316396441 https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=16396441&goto=threads%...