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Capitalism is also incompatible with meritocracy, otherwise how to explain that the children of rich people will have better education and socialization than th
by coliveira 3y ago
Capitalism is also incompatible with meritocracy, otherwise how to explain that the children of rich people will have better education and socialization than the rest of the population? Do they have more merit simply because of the womb they came from? Are they better than an equally capable person born in an underprivileged neighborhood?
- cubefox 3y agoIntelligence is indeed substantially heritable. > The heritability of intelligence increases from about 20% in infancy to perhaps 80% in later adulthood. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270739/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270739/
- coliveira 3y agoThere are intelligent people in all levels of society and all cultures, so this changes nothing.
- cubefox 3y agoThere also some women that are taller than some men, but men are still taller than women.
- latency-guy2 3y agoHow many?
- coliveira 3y agoAs many as you need.
- erik_seaberg 3y agoIf you are better educated than I, you have probably developed skills that I couldn’t. This isn’t fair but it still matters; after a certain age it’s harder for anyone to benefit from my unrealized potential.
- bigstrat2003 3y agoYou're attacking a strawman. The person you're replying to didn't claim that rich people's children are more meritorious simply by birth. If we assume good faith (which we should), the other poster would similarly be opposed to nepotism which grants unfair advantages.
- coliveira 3y agoI'm not countering the poster's idea, I'm just pointing out that capitalism is also incompatible with meritocracy for the reasons that I mentioned.