>The modern product of the American university is generally skeptical of anything resembling a meritocracy A little-known fact about the word "meritocracy"[0]

>The modern product of the American university is generally skeptical of anything resembling a meritocracy A little-known fact about the word "meritocracy"[0] is that it's a recent invention, coined by Baron Young of Dartington[1] in his satirical work[2] outlining how dystopian a society organised as a meritocracy would be. [0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meritocracy https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meritocracy [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Young,_Baron_Young_of_Dartington https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Young,_Baron_Young_of_... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy