> Your worth should be based on your skills (meritocracy)

And with deciding "merit" are the kingmakers, or the "meritmakers".

Congratulations. You now have created a new class of people who can take bribes and subvert leadership under the term "merit".

And, explain how one would calculate "merit"? In my experiences, meritocracies are monocultures that put forth their own biases as "merit".