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We don't live in a Meritocracy, not even close.
It's a Charismacracy; those who can out-popular the others wins.
It's not even out popular others, its if you have the money, you just buy yourself the merit. You win because of you family name. You can buy your way into the best schools, and quite possibly pay others to do your work, or just flat out pay for better grades, I mean who in their right mind is going to flunk the child a major school benefactor?
More like "He who pops from the right (read: sufficiently wealthy) vagina wins!"
True meritocracy had never been implemented in any human society larger than a small village.
It had been partially implemented in several places/times
What we have today is a partially implemented one in middle management, technocrats and engineers.
Where out of touch upper management and owners are the rule. But if I look at any successful company I will find the tech and middle management running it day to day
We're so close to just having the workers run their own affairs, the table is set we just have to make everyone realize the actual owners are useless and do nothing
And more than just realizing that, we need to find a realistic path to take that power away from them.
And more than that not have a different group of upper class later. As had happened always.
I’d rather not go through the churn if no real difference a few years later