I have a huge problem with someone who says, "We should just make compensation merit-based rather than based on accidents of birth", because it refuses to ackno

I have a huge problem with someone who says, "We should just make compensation merit-based rather than based on accidents of birth", because it refuses to acknowledge that we already live in that system. It's just that the "merit" is stuff that happens to correlate strongly to accidents of birth (like IQ, speaking the "correct" dialect, being well-educated, and so forth). It turns into, "our system is broken, we need to system _harder_", and is just as much nonsense.