"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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I'm not sure how Young's thoughts are relevant to how people built upon & adopted his word. My point is that people have used the idea of meritocracy to defend free markets. Refuting my central point would be saying that people (not Young) didn't use that term to defend markets
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Or co-opted his word, to be sure.
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Young was trying to explain how a new class system & justification for its existence was supplanting the old class system of British aristocracy in his book. I'm just a little exasperated at how frequently this term is misused; it's not personal at you.pic.twitter.com/k7dYqVkokg
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It returns to me that ‘aristocracy’ comes from ‘hoi aristoi’ meaning the ‘best men.’ Presumably the aristoi felt they were the result of a meritocracy too. But after hundreds of years the idea took a much different, more fixed, connotation. A form of compounding really.
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