Re:How the Ivy League Broke America
by piva00 on Thursday November 14, 2024 @09:52AM
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What meritocracy? It's not about meritocracy at all, the talent flocks to what makes most money because that's the whole incentive of the system. Only a few of the talented ones are not attracted by that and have their own desires to fulfill which they can apply their talents to.
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> It's not about meritocracy at all, the talent flocks to what makes most money because that's the whole incentive of the system.
The incentives of the meritocratic system. For instance, in the pre-meritocratic WASP-y system, the intellectual talent couldn't do that, or at least couldn't do it nearly as freely.
The system is both a very narrow intellectual meritocratic system, and a "greed is our one-and-only God" late-stage capitalist system.
Kinda like a patient having two different kinds of cancer - you gotta keep distinguishing if you're trying to talk about details of the case.