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Meritocracy is about selecting and awarding the best. This will always create an elite. The best educated will be the rich and self amplify themselves by givin
by kiba 5y ago
Meritocracy is about selecting and awarding the best. This will always create an elite.
The best educated will be the rich and self amplify themselves by giving them the resources needed to succeed. They earned their merit by being better than anyone else.
The poor will always be disadvantaged, whether that's broken homes or lack of access to resources.
Meritocracy is a toxic idea if you don't understand the tradeoff. It will always exacerbates inequality.
- proc0 5y agoFirst, this is basically admitting you are not good enough, and they are inherently better. Already a self-defeatist attitude that can become a self-fulflilling prophecy. And second, you even mention it: > self amplify themselves by giving them the resources needed to succeed That's corrupt meritocracy. Also are you telling me you don't select restaurants, mechanics, food products, opinions of others, etc., etc., based on whether they're better than others or not? Are you saying you just go around never thinking of who does it better than others to then benefit from that? Think about how you reward peopel on a daily basis, and how that ends up contributing to meritocracy.