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Re:Meritocracy harms everyone, even the winners by TeMPOraL on Monday October 21, 2019 @03:44PM (#21316412)
> Additionally, why is a meritocracy even desirable? You don't choose your parents, you don't choose your genetics, you don't choose to be born able-bodied or not, so why should you be rewarded for those things over somebody else?

Why do you think in terms of rewarding? Isn't the point to have people doing things they're most suited for individually?

I guess you could say that meritocracy isn't compatible with free market economy.

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Re:Meritocracy harms everyone, even the winners by perl4ever on Monday October 21, 2019 @07:19PM (#21318666)
An interesting thing to think about is that having the best person possible for a job is usually incompatible with that person having the job they are best at. In a "meritocracy", which one predominates?
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