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No one thinks meritocracy is bad. Many think the modern meritocracy is a pretense used to justify rewarding people not for their efforts or contributions but be
by elliekelly 4y ago
No one thinks meritocracy is bad. Many think the modern meritocracy is a pretense used to justify rewarding people not for their efforts or contributions but because of their inherent “worthiness” as a member of the wealthy class.
- jona-f 4y agoWell, i think meritocracy is bad. The job should go to the most suited and not to someone who has earned it cause of past efforts. People hope those two are the same, but in practice they might not. Meritocracy favors career-bureaucrats, who make up whatever metric that defines the merit.
- resonious 4y agoThis kind of sounds to me like we're defining merit as some kind of points system where you get merit just by expending effort. Like if I work really hard at digging a hole in the dirt somewhere, I can then use my amassed merit points to get a promotion. I think most people would count being suited for a job as having high merit.