Re:Blog Anonymously
by DenisM on Friday July 10, 2020 @02:16PM
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What is your opinion on "The Meritocracy Trap:..." by Daniel Markovits? I was recently told this would be a good reading to question meritocracy, or at least to understand those who do.
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You can listen to Sam Harris' podcast with Markovits for an introduction to the book [1], or Ezra Klein's [2]. I found his argument novel, thoughtful, and quite convincing and have put the book on my reading list.
The claim is that elites have instituted a caste system, more or less, with enormous inequality and very little social mobility, all under the guise of meritocracy which serves to legitimise it.
[1] https://samharris.org/podcasts/205-failure-meritocracy/
[2] link at the end here: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/10/24/20919030/...