Plebs are never assessed on merit because they don't have any. So you get better treatment for one pleb or another pleb because of what school they went to or their gender, but in the end it's all just interchangeable plebs anyway. If you have real talent ("tech bloggers" need not apply) and a bit of a spine then that is going to be the dominant factor in your success. But we see so many stories these days about how various little plebs aren't getting some perceived due that it's becoming a degenerate force.
Re:Smell Ya Later, Nerds
by blocking_io on Friday September 27, 2013 @11:24AM
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You are literally calling most people in the world 'plebs'. What is wrong with you?
Also a side question: does me commenting in this thread make it less likely to sink? Because this is the kind of submission that needs to be aborted in the womb.
Ah the language.
How effortlessly, out of all of the possible selections of colloquialisms and metaphors one could select, the ease of cognitive flow.
Maybe, just maybe there is an itsy bitsy bit of merit in her commentary?
How is tech merit based? Truthfully, most vocational jobs are more merit-based than technology. We see technology companies filtering on a long list of items (school attended, age, etc.) that have very little to do with merit. If you have had opportunity, technology is a wonderful career, but it just isn't merit-based. It does suffer from the same problems as every other professional career.
The merit-based utopia meme needs to leave so we can actually look at the trends and decide if some things need correcting.