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There will always be a place for meritocracy because, at lower levels of the employment ladder, someone competent will need to get something done in order to op
by JMTQp8lwXL 7y ago
There will always be a place for meritocracy because, at lower levels of the employment ladder, someone competent will need to get something done in order to operate a profitable company.
You can't have straight incompetence from the C-suite down without eventually running a business into the ground.
Although family money gives unfair advantages, you can make a nice life for yourself and earn above the median wage through acquiring in-demand skills through the meritocratic system. It isn't perfect, but it at least gives those who don't come from money --which is by and large, most people-- a chance at a decent life.
- danharaj 7y agoAnother way of seeing it is that we are all denied a decent life unless we are competent and sell our competent labor to uphold a system that keeps idiots at the top.
- JMTQp8lwXL 7y agoThis supposes that all executive leadership is incompetent. That isn't the case. There are companies that, if you replaced the competent executives with idiots, the company would fall apart.
- danharaj 7y ago#NotAllRulingClass
- SolaceQuantum 7y ago"It isn't perfect, but it at least gives those who don't come from money --which is by and large, most people-- a chance at a decent life." What are the chances at a decent life anyways? Is the chance a good one? What is the worth of a meritocracy if you do all the right things and stull only get a probability of a right life?
- jimbokun 7y agoWell, you can just use the Roman approach, and buy an educated slave.