This was a good segment; I never knew ‘meritocracy’ was a satirical term originally /
https://twitter.com/JohnPatLeary/status/1106897878096769024 …
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Meritocracy and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps were both originally meant to be satirical but people decided to treat them as real concepts when their creators knew they were parodies of reality
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Replying to @Carnage4Life @robleathern
Michael Young was disappointed by how society subsequently used the word he coined. The everpresent danger of satire or trolling, that people spread your ideas in seriousness, not jest. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy …
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