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@SarahTheHaider

Meritocracy isn't valuable because it provides "fair" or "just" outcomes - it doesn't, and can't. Even a perfect merit system is unjust, so long as we are born unequal. Meritocracy is valuable because it provides *useful* outcomes - incentives to be the best we can be.

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Beauty and IQ - the greatest privileges there are. But there isn’t a society or an ideology on earth that wants to deal with that

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True or false - doesn’t make a difference. You don’t choose your grit

@DaveRob48526990

We hear a lot about fat-shaming. What about "fit shaming"? There is a segment of society that wants to even the playing field in the area of beauty by painting fit and slim people as self-obsessed, neurotic people and thus discourage people from joining their ranks.