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The tyranny of meritocracy1/2/2024 The people who control most of the world's capital are completely unproductive and parasitic - either actively harming the real economy or enthusiastically destroying any prospect for organized human survival. Really great read if you like history and philosophy both.īefore arguing that we live in a society bottom text, which is obvious, it's probably useful to acknowledge capitalism, especially in its neoliberal, managerial form, is the exact inverse of a system based on merit, even if you decided, for some asinine reason, that such a merit-based system would be just and desirable. In fact, the people who influenced us - parents, friends, teachers - are as much a part of “me” as are our own choices.įurther, those we have never met - ancestors obviously, but also those who built your political system, your customs, your laws, your language, your history, fought your wars - are all as much a part of you as anything else. The idea is that we often view “me” today as the whole of “me”. We all know, in our own lives, who those people are who’ve opened a window, given us an idea, given us encouragement, given us a sense of direction, self-approval, self-worth, or who have straightened us out when we were on the wrong path… Family, teachers, friends, rivals, competitors-they’ve all shaped us.” But every one who’s ever lived has been affected, changed, shaped, helped, hindered by other people. “Nor is there any such creature as a self-made man or woman. Reminds me of David McCullough‘s Knowing History and Knowing Who We Are.
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