How are you defining "meritocracy"? To some people, it's so obvious that we don't live in one that your statement seems just utterly incredible. I can only conc

How are you defining "meritocracy"? To some people, it's so obvious that we don't live in one that your statement seems just utterly incredible. I can only conclude you and they must have different definitions of "meritocracy". In the interests of not coming across as a passive-aggressive dickhead, I believe that the US and the UK (where I happen to live) are, to a large extent, meritocracies, and I think this is a bad thing that stunts (many) people's opportunities to excel and achieve. I suspect we have quite different working definitions of "meritocracy".