The word "meritocracy" was coined in a book of social satire making fun of the concept
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People generally understand this is implied by how "meritocracy" is used and don't use the term for, say, picking the biggest and strongest soldiers to die horribly on the front lines of a battlefield
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Well, YES. The best airline pilots should be the one empowered to fly; the people empowered to deal with a pandemic should be people who understand the pandemic best; etc. Your dilemma sounds like Raymond Chandler about critics: 1/2
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"The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment." But we can often determine who knows enough to speak with authority, and whether that authority should be empowered. 2/2
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