I don’t think that word means what people think it means. Merit does not equal fairness. They’re two separate things
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Innate ability and skill has nothing to do with fairness, so how could anything that flows from it? Games have rules and if you want to argue that we often violate the rules for the advantage of certain people, then yes we do. You’re right about that
1/ Because it’s complicated. And I’m not trying to be purposefully obtuse. Here’s an example: rich connected kids have an easier time getting into elite schools for two sets of reasons
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2/ the first set of reasons is all those back doors and front doors built into the institutions that explicitly privilege rich kids
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3/ but there’s a whole other set of reasons that full under a different category. And that’s that the whole game of “getting into an elite school” was set up with rules that explicitly favor the rich in the same way that basketball explicitly favors the tall
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