Those who despise meritocracy simply lack, well, intelligence to understand it. Merit is not about IQ, merit is about knowledge and experience in a field. A c

Those who despise meritocracy simply lack, well, intelligence to understand it. Merit is not about IQ, merit is about knowledge and experience in a field. A cook can't build a bridge, a carpenter can't rule a kingdom, a ballet dancer can't run wall street, an altar boy can't run the vatican. We can't know it all, so we specialize, and the more we specialize the more valuable we are in that particular field. So if you want to know about quantum mechanics you ask Stephen Hawking not Emeril Lagasse, but if you want to know about beef stew you know who's the right man. Now guess who would be the perfect fit for the Newton's Chair and who for the Food Network's primetime show? That's meritocracy, it's not about IQ, it's about merits, you earn them, you can't take them or buy them, you just fucking earn them with sweat and tears.