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Meritocracy in the US is almost entirely a myth, outside of a few sports.
Free will as it's popularly understood doesn't actually exist.
Most shoes are bad for us and cause injuries over the course of our lives .
The free will myth is especially damaging, as it steers people away from pragmatic solutions and towards blame and punitive policies.
Free will is wholly incompatible with our modern understanding of physics but nobody will listen because they simply donβt like it.