>Merit means that your input (effort, energy, dedication, discipline) has a large if not decisive effect on your outcome. But it doesn't, and this can be easil

>Merit means that your input (effort, energy, dedication, discipline) has a large if not decisive effect on your outcome. But it doesn't, and this can be easily measured. Are you saying this is how you wished things were? Then I agree with you, that's what we should strive for. Are you saying this is how things are? That's just false (hilariously so).