Re:Evidence on Poverty Traps from Rural Bangladesh [pdf]
by tremon on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @08:01AM
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(a) Allocating rewards irrespective of merit is a prerequisite for meritocracy, otherwise environments cannot be equalized; (b) allocating rewards according to merit is a prerequisite for meritocracy, otherwise people cannot be stratified by wealth and status; (c) therefore, a class-stratified meritocracy is impossible.
This is a disingenuous argument. (a) and (b) are not talking about the same kind of rewards:
(a) : when talking about the equalization of environments, the "rewards" are allocated to areas and groups of people, not to individuals.
(b) : the stratification of wealth is talking about "rewards" to individual people.
These two concepts are not the same, the mechanisms are not the same, and the justification for them is not the same. They're only grouped together as "rewards" so they lead to the false conclusion (c).
This is a disingenuous argument. (a) and (b) are not talking about the same kind of rewards:
(a) : when talking about the equalization of environments, the "rewards" are allocated to areas and groups of people, not to individuals.
(b) : the stratification of wealth is talking about "rewards" to individual people.
These two concepts are not the same, the mechanisms are not the same, and the justification for them is not the same. They're only grouped together as "rewards" so they lead to the false conclusion (c).