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He seems to be warning against falling into a localised optimum, thus missing out on something better. Fair advice, but I don't think that's what's commonly a m
by delibes 12y ago
He seems to be warning against falling into a localised optimum, thus missing out on something better. Fair advice, but I don't think that's what's commonly a meritocracy.
Sadly unrelated, the term meritocracy was coined by Michael Young - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy - and was supposed to suggest a strongly negative idea. It isn't really used like that these days.
- wallflower 12y ago> It describes as dystopian society in future Britain in which intelligence and merit have become the central tenet of society, replacing previous divisions of social class and creating a society stratified between a merited power holding elite and a disenfranchised underclass of the less merited Actually, there are echoes of what he is railing about in the modern 99/1%, destruction of middle class society.