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Liberals like to argue that the meritocracy doesn't exist, because billionaires had rich parents or whatever. Who cares? It's not as though having billionaires with thousands of servants to meet their every need is more moral because they were born clever, rather than rich.
"I was born with the specific cleverness that allows me to manipulate financial data and win at stock market gambling, therefore I deserve a yacht which took thousands of man-hours to build, servants in my mansion, and the power to dictate workers of the companies I bought."
1/5 @AndrewYang has some good insights about the meritocracy in his book The War on Normal People:
"…The underlying logic of the meritocratic system is this: If you're successful, it's because you're smart and hardworking, and thus virtuous. If you're poor or unsuccessful, …
2/5 …it's because you're lazy and/or stupid and of subpar character. The people at the top belong there and the people at the bottom have only themselves to blame." (p. 96) "The meritocracy was never intended to be a real thing—it started out as a parody in a British satire…
There are a rare few people in history whose outlook has been "I was born clever, and that luck obligates me to use my cleverness for the betterment of others." If anyone is a hero, those people are.
And if your specific skill set happens to not be good in the financial arena but actually good for humanity, like say, you're a brilliant nurse, carer, teacher or musician, you will never manage to even come close to that level of wealth.
I’m concerned about poverty, not riches.
Believe it or not, but they're linked.
All with [imaginary] money.
Cool it with the antisemitic remarks.
This is the flip side in the meritocracy; if the Haves deserve theirs, the Poor don't deserve anything
Yup, but many liberals train their sites on those who are not fantastically rich but still have a very good floor for success. Arguments about the damage inequality does to opportunity and society as a result were first made by public health researchers, not Socialist Alternative
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