You point out that it’s hard to measure merit at times. OK, but you haven’t argued that means our noisy signals of merit should be ignored. Whatever it’s flaw

You point out that it’s hard to measure merit at times. OK, but you haven’t argued that means our noisy signals of merit should be ignored. Whatever it’s flaws, here is what I like about meritocracy: it says we should honor and reward those who work hard and encourages the pursuit of merit in individuals. In contrast, the central comment of DEI is that groups who do relatively well don’t deserve it, that their gains are ill gotten. Members of these groups who work hard should not be rewarded. In fact they deserve less than equal treatment by society. I am confident that this latter system if followed would result in much worse outcomes, discouraging individuals to work hard. It is an ugly, negative philosophy. We should honor the strong and hard working and successful, encourage them to share their methods with others so that they might also succeed, help the weak, and ostracize the lazy.