"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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Replying to @eriktorenberg
I’m sorry. You literally have no sense of history here. Meritocracy was coined as a satirical term by a Labour Party member in Britain in the late 1950s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @eriktorenberg
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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Replying to @kimmaicutler
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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You were upset that the term got coopted w/out realizing that your interpretation of the term is also in fact cooption of the creator’s critique to the opposite effect.
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kim-mai does this mean i’m allowed to criticize socialists for socialism now 
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