>Wooldridge holds out hope that a “wiser,” “remoralized” meritocracy, cleansed of nepotism and elite hoarding, is still possible. He points to the success of As

>Wooldridge holds out hope that a “wiser,” “remoralized” meritocracy, cleansed of nepotism and elite hoarding, is still possible. He points to the success of Asian countries like China and Singapore newly committed to their own forms of merit-based hierarchies. China is held up as an example meritocracy? And how can you even have nepotism in a meritocracy? Are you talking about false meritocracy, or something that you are calling a meritocracy but instead is not based on merit?