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Doesn’t seem that surprising that parents would act in any way necessary to prevent others from limiting or competing for their offspring’s opportunities.
by wryoak 2y ago
Doesn’t seem that surprising that parents would act in any way necessary to prevent others from limiting or competing for their offspring’s opportunities.
- PaulHoule 2y agoIt erodes support for the meritocracy concept, for one thing.
- quantified 2y agoMeritocracy is fine for others. It just needs to not get in the way of your own success.
- wryoak 2y agoOnly for those losing the game because they’re forced to realize the best players are rising to the top because they were playing the game the way it is most efficiently won, not the way we idealize it. Now I would prefer our systems measure eg intelligence rather than parental ruthlessness, certainly, but their failure to do that isn’t going to make me deny the winners their hard-earned victory. They sacrificed a lot to get there. A soul is not easily recovered.