johnvic

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by johnvic 11y ago
I agree but you will never be able to have a perfectly level field, I had friends whose parents were already in IT and thus learned to program years before I did which gave them a substantial advantage, but how do you solve that?.
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by johnvic 11y ago
You seem to be making the same mistake than people who say democracy isn't the best system and yet you fail to understand that is the best system we have so far. A meritocracy in tech would be the same case, its not perfect but it woul
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by johnvic 11y ago
I think the title makes it very clear I'm strictly talking about the tech industry here, I can't say meritocracy is the best for all industries, let alone as a form of governance. >In Young's original 1958 formulation I&
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by johnvic 11y ago
I do agree with a lot of what you are saying but that seems more like the result of a lack of meritocracy and not an excess of it. In any case you are showing me why people high up don't want a meritocracy, because they have little or
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by johnvic 11y ago
That's ridiculous, I'm a minority and I don't feel discouraged because they show a white guy in an ad for a job, I'm not going to choose some other company just because they put an afro-latino person like myself in the a
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by johnvic 11y ago
I'm half Latino and half African, through the years people like me was kept outside of opportunities because no matter how good you were at something you were not "white" and therefore you couldn't get in. The same syste
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Ask HN: Why the sudden hate towards meritocracy in tech?
9 points by johnvic 11y ago|26 comments