> Because meritocracy isn't a real thing. Comment should have ended there. Meritocracy isn't authoritarianism, because it isn't anything because it isn't real.

> Because meritocracy isn't a real thing. Comment should have ended there. Meritocracy isn't authoritarianism, because it isn't anything because it isn't real. Meritocracy isn't despotism, because it isn't anything because it doesn't exist. However, authoritarians, despots and oligarchs often pretend they're meritocrats (or several other popular ideologies).