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Re:Meritocracies Are Unfair – and That's the Point by username90 on Sunday December 20, 2020 @01:25PM (#25488355)
By definition the average person will have mediocre merit so it makes sense that most people are biased against meritocracy.
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Re:Meritocracies Are Unfair – and That's the Point by crististm on Monday December 21, 2020 @03:06AM (#25493020)
I don't agree with this definition and its conclusions.

I am average in a domain but I want competent people around me. I am not against them earning more.

What I see is that some people will consider that any type of competence signaled through usual means (e.g. better pay) is in fact corruption and the reason they earn less. You will find many of those people commenting on this post.

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