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Your last sentence confuses me. If someone believes in the great meritocracy then they must agree that wealthier people are better people, then it seems obvious
by hallway_monitor 5y ago
Your last sentence confuses me. If someone believes in the great meritocracy then they must agree that wealthier people are better people, then it seems obvious that most people in the world feel this way, whether they admit it or not, and even whether they realize it themselves or not. The princess marrying the pauper is a nice fairy tale but how often does it actually happen in reality?
- 52-6F-62 5y agoFair point—that line was a bit tongue-in-cheek. But I'm comfortable living with contradictions, so I do believe there is a meritocracy, but I don't believe it's total. Only wading in the shallows because I actually have some work to get to today, but to clarify by example: I'm sure most North Americans around this forum grew up hearing lines like "you don't want to end up a janitor". Personally, I've seen episodes like factory supervisors ignore physical health requests because their faithful hourly workers were "probably just trying to get off easy" (no, they ended up losing their job when their back gave out). Obviously they were only a line hand, so they're probably a dirtbag, as the line of reasoning followed in that situation.. and so on. Definitely not touching the hot mess of "marrying upward" or other potential confidence games.