None of this discounts a meritocracy, it simply discounts the notion that the only goal in life is monetary. If you look at many organizations (non-corporate),

None of this discounts a meritocracy, it simply discounts the notion that the only goal in life is monetary. If you look at many organizations (non-corporate), position and reward don't come in monetary or positions of power, but in fulfillment. Doctors Without Borders, Buddhist monasteries, etc. etc. Yet all of these will reward effort and merit in some way or another, unless I'm missing something here. While this was a sweet little story and all, merit has function and the baby shouldn't be thrown out with the bath water.