Another very good essay, quite cognate. "Lost in the Meritocracy," http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/01/lost-in-the-meritocracy/3672/ http://www.

Another very good essay, quite cognate. "Lost in the Meritocracy," http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/01/lost-in-the-meritocracy/3672/ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/01/lost-in-..., by Walter Kirn a few years back.