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> meritocracy isn't a thing One of many examples I can give to disprove this as I'm sitting here watching Croatia & Morocco in the World Cup, is looking at som
by yucky 4y ago
> meritocracy isn't a thing
One of many examples I can give to disprove this as I'm sitting here watching Croatia & Morocco in the World Cup, is looking at some of the contracts some of these players get from their clubs. Wide disparity and definitely seems to be based on a meritocracy. Taken further, why are none of these fans in the stands, many of whom who also play for fun not equally compensated or even compensated at all? After all, they can kick a ball too.
So now that we've established that meritocracy is obviously a real thing, we have to ask what evidence you have that a meritocracy wouldn't exist in other fields, like programming for instance.
- bombolo 4y ago> So now that we've established that meritocracy is obviously a real thing We have? Because… a football match was played? What did it prove exactly?
- yucky 4y agoUh...no. Better players make more money (due to meritocracy). Do you think the better players should make the same as the worst players?
- bombolo 4y ago> Better players make more money Well you define "better players" as "those making more money"… so in the end you are proving your statement via tautology. Which is meaningless. In any case, even admitting that meritocracy in football works (it probably doesn't)… so what? Most workers aren't professional football players.
- yucky 4y agoI feel like you're trolling, or just setting up a strawman since the argument has been lost. But in good faith, I'll try one more time. "Better players" are defined by production on the field. That better play on the field then results in higher contracts for the better players. I'm not defining better players by the size of their contracts. Players who never perform well won't get the biggest contracts. Which is meritocratic, by definition. > Most workers aren't professional football players. No, but it's just one of many examples that proves there are people who significantly outperform their peers. The idea of rewarding them more as a result of better performance is what a meritocracy is.
- bombolo 4y agoItalian players are paid a lot and italy didn't even qualify… are you still insisting on the correctness of your easily disproved theory?
- yucky 4y agoItaly can't control what others pay, but using your example does Italy pay all of their players the same, or do they generally pay more money to their better players?
- bombolo 4y agoBut it can control wages, and seems they are above market rate? Which of course means that wages aren't adjusted by merit.