> But it was always that: an illusion. Only if you view in black/white absolutist terms where if every single person isn't on 100% merit then it doesn't count

> But it was always that: an illusion. Only if you view in black/white absolutist terms where if every single person isn't on 100% merit then it doesn't count at all. But the only thing this argument achieves is making the people actively causing or cheerleading the damage feel better about what they are doing. For everyone else, it's a massive regression.