Some people who are conservatives are very much into the idea of meritocracy... that's why they don't understand why everyone can't just drop everything, go to school, then be making $100k a year.
The idea that capitalism would be justified if it were a "meritocracy" is a bit bizarre. Like if someone is a bit smarter, hundreds of thousands of people should spend their working lives catering to their every whim for some reason.
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Dig deep enough, and you find it backed up with the claim, "I should be personally exempt from moral reasoning."
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Well, the reason is I think I be that smart guy.
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The 'work hard' advice is so overused, I wonder if one can even take credit for their proclivity to work hard.
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But to make it fair meritocracy everyone should start with the exact same resources and parents wouldn't be able to pass their wealth to their kids. So basically socialism.
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not to mention that "being smart" cant be quantified and there are many different forms of intelligence that flourish under different circumstances.
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By the way, that reminds me the whole disgorging-provoking Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged, where all they characters are amazingly intelligent, hard-working and also hot, and, by doing this, the inequality's been justified. What a shallow argument and what shameless liberalists!
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