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comment by katakowsj
katakowsj  ·  1597 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Is Meritocracy Making Everyone Miserable?

Meritocracy, for what we may agree upon it’s meaning, appears to be the least worst system, at the moment, of achieving success. Markovits, it sounds, works really hard to describe a problem, yet no solution seems to be offered. Makes me skeptical.

No major system is completely fair. It seems, more fair, though as we know more about a system. If we’re aware of the inequities in a system, and the inequities are consistent, is that system more or less now a fair system? At least through our understanding, it now appears to be consistent, or fairly set up with inherent inequities. Depending on where we start, a random draw, no one chooses their parents, everyone has a fair shot to make their way.