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It's kind of trite and obvious by now, but can we please kill the "Everyone gets what they deserve" line of thinking?
by tormeh 12y ago
It's kind of trite and obvious by now, but can we please kill the "Everyone gets what they deserve" line of thinking?
- arethuza 12y agoThe idea that "they deserve whatever they can get" is one of the criticisms of modern UK/US culture made by Michael Young who actually coined the term in his satirical book The Rise of the Meritocracy: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/29/comment http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/29/comment [Edit: I don't know about the US but here in the UK it is fairly common to define "merit" in ways that don't actually seem to include "performance" - though I think this is a far bigger problem in the public sector than the private].
- roywiggins 12y agoThis is basically the "just world" fallacy writ large, right?