> Meritocracy is judging by the results. Say you need brain surgery. Are you telling me you will choose based on some criteria other than results? I will pick

> Meritocracy is judging by the results. Say you need brain surgery. Are you telling me you will choose based on some criteria other than results? I will pick a 9 headed purple alien if it will do the best job. And I won't care that it had the advantage of 7 parents who were rich doctors and harvard alumni. The place to fix inequality is upstream. The cure for those advantages is to level the playing field. > If you judging system by it's ideal implementation, then you should argue for Communism Straw man. Like visiting a junkyard and concluding all cars don't move. That line of reasoning lets you conclude anything with a failed example can never work.