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This raises some very difficult questions to answer, and is all the more important for it. On Singapore’s inequality: ethosbooks.com.sg/blogs/epiphany

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Richard Goulter

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Read it to about half way, skimmed the rest. I think there's a problem with saying "meritocracy doesn't consider these cases; can't iteratively fix that". slatestarcodex.com/2017/07/24/tar

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e.g. if the spirit of meritocracy is "let's reduce arbitrary discrimination/inequality", I don't think it makes sense to say "but the system doesn't work here; meritocracy is stupid".

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She doesn't actually say that. You may say she implies it; I made the same protests to a friend, he argued that I should just read 'as-is' for a first pass. The value? If this is a growing trend in policy-making, best to watch it now.

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(She has the ear of civil servants in Singapore, if what I'm hearing is accurate).

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Richard Goulter

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The penultimate sentence of "can't just tweak it at the edges" is the same as "can't fix iterately" .. but that's nitpicking.

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