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The Moral Center of Meritocracy Collapses
- minikites 8y agoThe crime isn't that these people paid money to get their children into a university, the crime is that the money went to people and organizations other than the university.
- jimjamarnold 8y agoWhat moral center? The game has always been work hard and do everything to help your kids succeed, so they can do the same. You either accept those rules and play along or don't. But don't expect others not to play b/c you refuse. I did like the author's bigger point of the top 10% vs the bottom 90%. That divide is widening and crystalizing, which, I feel, is wrecking the American Dream. We need a new Dream, the old one died in the Great Recession.
- deogeo 8y agoMost people put limits on that 'everything'.