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Re:Neuroscientist Larry Cahill on the ‘neurosexism’ debate by wtdata on Monday April 22, 2019 @12:05PM (#19720028)
It worked great in the West at least, the world was never as equitable and meritocratic as it is today and it is continuously progressing for better according to all factual data.
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Re:Neuroscientist Larry Cahill on the ‘neurosexism’ debate by ionised on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @08:41AM (#19727983)
I'm still confused as to why people are holding meritocracy up as something we should aspire to.

Meritocracy was originally devised as a negative concept, simply because the idea of what constitutes 'merit' is subjective and complex.

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