> Yeah, but naked capitalism is closer to meritocracy, albeit not nearly there. But just as far from equality. > It's still there, just not to the same extent

> Yeah, but naked capitalism is closer to meritocracy, albeit not nearly there. But just as far from equality. > It's still there, just not to the same extent, and more subtle. "not much of a" > The market economy helps because it provides mostly unbiased. You're not required to know people, but it still helps enormously if you do. A market economy is by design biased towards wealthy people. A democratic state with rule of law is mostly unbiased.