> Sadly this won't be the wake up call that we need to bring back some sort of meritocracy to American society. Please someone define meritocracy and describe

> Sadly this won't be the wake up call that we need to bring back some sort of meritocracy to American society. Please someone define meritocracy and describe how that will save us. Here is a definition I googled: "a ruling or influential class of educated or skilled people." SBF seems to fulfill the requirements. He went to MIT and studied physics and was a quant at Jane street (He was literally born on Stanford Campus to two Stanford professors). Logic being that if you score high on tests and go to a good school then you are up for the task. There are even papers that state that the higher your IQ the more moral you are. If you work yourself to death than you have earned the merit (he even claims to have slept in his office). He is even a vegan and a committed altruist. You could not get much better on paper. All of these criminals have merit. Liz Truss and Boris Johnson all read at Oxford. The supreme court of the US are mostly from Yale and Harvard. Trump went to UPenn. Many of the people scamming us today work really long hours and have gone to really good schools.