Indeed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy#Early_definitions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy#Early_definitions > the original, condemnatory u

Indeed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy#Early_definitions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy#Early_definitions > the original, condemnatory use of the term in 1958 by Michael Young in his work "The Rise of the Meritocracy", who was satirizing the ostensibly merit-based Tripartite System of education practiced in the United Kingdom at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy > It is good sense to appoint individual people to jobs on their merit. It is the opposite when those who are judged to have merit of a particular kind harden into a new social class without room in it for others.