I actually don't care about whether you think my IQ makes me a better or worse person in some abstract metaphysical sense I care about whether you think it should be used to determine whether to allow me to hold positions of power and responsibility
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(I wonder if people know that the word "meritocracy" was coined in a *satirical* essay -- "The Rise of the Meritocracy" -- about how the basic concept was hypocritical, logically self-defeating and impossible)
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Whoever coined it, isn’t it deeply ironic that it was him of all people
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The true positions of power are not usually achieved through testing, but through other means. Your entire argument is false for that reason, because you fail to distinguish between the workers who just do what they are told (most of us) and the few with significant power.
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Yes, under a Marxist analysis a highly paid software engineer in San Francisco is in the "working class" the same as a burger-flipper in Wichita, and the members of the "ruling class" are indeed very few However, the idea that the engineer *has no power* is horseshit
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