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Re:64 and unemployed: One man's struggle to be taken serious... by Gibbon1 on Monday January 28, 2019 @09:42PM (#19023264)
> Meritocracy is a lie used by the privileged. There is no such thing in the real world.

I remember an essay by a black female engineer. She said what helped her were three things, her dad had a union job, disability payments from the uncle who came home from Korea with no legs. These meant they could fake a middle class lifestyle. And her mother teaching her how to dress and talk like a white person.

Seriously a lot of 'Meritocracy' is nothing more than soft affinity fraud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity_fraud

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Re:64 and unemployed: One man's struggle to be taken serious... by ValleyOfTheMtns on Monday January 28, 2019 @11:10PM (#19023692)
Seems like that's conflating actual meritocracy with an exploited/fake form of meritocracy.

Actual meritocracies are rare, but that doesn't mean we should redefine "meritocracy" to be the the distorted (and more common) version of it.

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Re:64 and unemployed: One man's struggle to be taken serious... by AstralStorm on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @04:36AM (#19025036)
Please provide an example of an actual meritocracy so we can educate you that it does not exist.
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Re:64 and unemployed: One man's struggle to be taken serious... by snotrockets on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @08:05PM (#19041304)
Just like every example of a communist regime wasn't true communist, and hence failed!
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