> We've come to accept that money and legacy power provides access and opportunity regardless of merit. Or were sold a merit based social contract and it has a

> We've come to accept that money and legacy power provides access and opportunity regardless of merit. Or were sold a merit based social contract and it has always been an ineffective set of rules that has no bearing on the way goods and resources are apportioned. Your cognitive dissonance comes from how you expect goods and resources to be apportioned. How you expect people should "earn" access, when the elites/oligarchs/connected rarely earn anything. They merely maintain access.