Obligatory note that the word "meritocracy" was coined by a sociologist in mid-century England as a distopian ideal, distopian because it was used as a bad excu

Obligatory note that the word "meritocracy" was coined by a sociologist in mid-century England as a distopian ideal, distopian because it was used as a bad excuse for privilege and the withholding of social services. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy