…toxic variation on the myth of meritocracy that ultimately treats human labor as merely an input to production and eschews any concept of human dignity or the value of honest…

…down to this: the Japanese Miracle ended when its fabled bureaucracy became far less of a test- and performance-based meritocracy. This was done with the noble cause of broadening inclusion,…

…possible, in favor of social equity, and an economically “efficient” streamlined government, that would produce a meritocracy which would be accepted as fair by all. As it happens, I still…

…not been immune. The first six Presidents, through John Quincy Adams, saw themselves as “Chief Magistrates,” only vetoing laws they thought were unconstitutional, and at least approximating a meritocracy in…

…egregious at the level of the top 0.1% and top 0.01%. It’s hard to argue that the US is at all a meritocracy when the starting points are so distorted….

…about the staggeringly wealthy”). Freeland is neither Marxist nor socialist, and as I am reading the book, not evenappropriately skeptical of the amount of merit behind the plutocrats’ self-claimed meritocracy….

…Universities do it, always have; there’s always been a selection process. Even during the Great Depression , if you knew the right someone, you could get a good job; meritocracy…

…boss because they could not make it in a true meritocracy, and at some level they know that (even if they insist they are disliked for their politics). In the…

…painful psychological sacrifices – she now felt obligated to give up on the myth of meritocracy. She in fact concluded that it was appropriate for her to be seen as…

…Growth as Senate and House Democrats Introduce Bills This Week. The Pernicious Myth of Meritocracy (Why American capitalism is so rotten, Part 5, Robert Reich. The nation’s largest banks have…