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Re:China’s experiment in ranking and monitoring citizens has... by rdlecler1 on Saturday April 07, 2018 @10:15AM (#16780785)
You’re putting up a straw man. I could write a dystopian book about any ideology. A good meritocracy would deal with these issues because a dystopian meritocracy would likely hamper innovation and the emergence of new standards and areas of merit.
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Re:China’s experiment in ranking and monitoring citizens has... by zajd on Saturday April 07, 2018 @10:34AM (#16780858)
It's not a straw man though? Meritocracy, the word itself, was invented to describe a fictional dystopian society.
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Re:China’s experiment in ranking and monitoring citizens has... by kome on Saturday April 07, 2018 @01:15PM (#16781629)
Well, it's kinda fun that the very word of meritocracy was invented as a dystopian word, but now it got a positive connotation. That's not a straw man: it's a fun fact.
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