Which narrative is valuable and which is pernicious depends on *which one is true.*
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There are productive arguments to be had around “Don’t destroy this institution’s substantial meritocratic/just qualities” vs “this institution is already so unjust there’s not much to preserve”
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And there are sometimes ways to cut across the debate: proposals that tend towards meritocracy/justice regardless of how fair or unfair the world currently is.
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I contrast these systems with predatory systems and tend to describe them as “generative” or talk about systems that”encourage human flourishing”
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Seems like this also dovetails with abundance versus zero-sum mindsets When I think about predatory or extractive systems it’s about stepping in and creating a bottleneck to seize value Generative systems create value in excess of the effort The latter is much harder to do
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karma.
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It's called socialism
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