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I don't think anybody claims that higher education in the US is a meritocracy. When people on HN talk about the meritocracy as though it is something that exis
by Crito 12y ago
I don't think anybody claims that higher education in the US is a meritocracy.
When people on HN talk about the meritocracy as though it is something that exists, they are talking about it in the tech industry, not in the education system that precedes it.
- learnstats2 12y agoIf tech industry is a meritocracy via higher education, and higher education is not itself a meritocracy, then the tech industry cannot be a meritocracy. Putting the unfair part in an early funnelling step of the hiring process, and then abstracting that away, doesn't change that the whole process is unfair.