> meritocracy is the gold standard Meritocracy is a dystopia that we somehow warped into its opposite, a utopia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_

> meritocracy is the gold standard Meritocracy is a dystopia that we somehow warped into its opposite, a utopia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy This seems to happen with many philosophical ideas: Christianity has become staunchly capitalist, the direct opposite of everything that Jesus taught; Communism, the dictatorship of the working class, became the dictatorship of the non-working elite class, etc.