"Meritocracy" changed from "How do we ensure the best rise up?" to "How do we ensure ppl get an equal chance? Who decides who's best? How?" It was used to protect the market from gov't social engineering—now it's used to justify it. Time to find a new word. It's been co-opted.
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Before he died, he wanted Tony Blair to stop using the term.https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/jun/29/comment …
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Lots of people invented things that had different use cases than they anticipated. I don't know how the inventor's intentions are related to my point: Did certain people not use meritocracy as a concept to justify market outcomes?
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same!
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