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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