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This is the idealist and ignorant perspective that created the problem. The woke mind virus. Meritocracy is critical. Someone has to do the actual work.
by arpowers 4y ago
This is the idealist and ignorant perspective that created the problem. The woke mind virus.
Meritocracy is critical. Someone has to do the actual work.
- 27fingies 4y agoI don’t disagree that the person you are replying to has an idealistic perspective on this… but turning around and blaming the situation on the “woke mind virus” is _even more_ idealistic.
- pms 4y agoHaving less inequality does not contradict meritocracy. Studies show that a fair society does not spread welfare equally [1]: a fair society still rewards merit, work, and contributions, but not to the exaggerated extent as we do nowadays most likely due to the herding and random effect of advertisements [2]. The U.S. and California lead the pack. Hopefully we will learn and adjust, but most likely it's going to be a very slow and unfortunately painful process... [1] Starmans, C., Sheskin, M., & Bloom, P. (2017). Why people prefer unequal societies. Nature Human Behaviour, 1(4), 0082. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0082 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0082 [2] Salganik, M. J., Dodds, P. S., & Watts, D. J. (2006). Experimental study of inequality and unpredictability in an artificial cultural market. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5762), 854–856. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1121066 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1121066