A more egalitarian meritocracy would be a better meritocracy for all.
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The real problem with the modern meritocracy can be found in the ideology of meritocracy itself.
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That's a particularly stunning conclusion to come to because the competitive meritocracy is not, in fact, a competitive meritocracy.
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At the same time, The Meritocracy Trap reminds us that we need not throw away the notion of meritocracy altogether.
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Thirty percent of respondents trended toward ideas of meritocracy and another 34% believed in a combination of meritocracy and social replication.
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And to me, I always say that Silicon Valley is a mirrortocracy rather than a meritocracy, and they believe they're a meritocracy.
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But there is a distinct difference between an exam meritocracy, which is what PISA and other competitive tests measure, and a talent meritocracy.
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At this point, whether meritocracy is responsible for the economy we have or whether the economy we have is subverting the aims of meritocracy doesn't really matter.
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Mr. Damore argues that there should be a meritocracy regardless of gender, but as long as women are viewed as innately inferior then achieving meritocracy is not possible.
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In his widely discussed new book, "The Meritocracy Trap," he shows correctly how the ideology of meritocracy hurts the millions of people who don't make it to the top.
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" This is a long distance from Judge Gorton's "meritocracy.
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A lot of these companies are run ... They also talk a lot about meritocracy, within a lot of cases, it's a meritocracy, it's a lot of the same people talking about things.
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As if we still thought this country was a meritocracy.
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At the same time, Markovits refuses to reject meritocracy altogether.
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This meant that the internet was something of a meritocracy.
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Yes, both parties have adopted this exalting of the meritocracy.
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Finally, the U.B.I. fits with a certain idea of meritocracy.
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The Harvard admissions committee is the epicenter of the meritocracy.
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Gutting: I agree that meritocracy requires meaningful rules of judgment.
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Some people might see that as a threat to meritocracy.
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Is it an idea meritocracy, or is it a hierarchy?
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Stories about meritocracy and opportunity, about talent, hope and help.
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A new book by Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits, The Meritocracy Trap, is a fascinating attempt to poke holes in our conventional understanding of meritocracy and, in the process, make the case for something better.
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By contrast, Van Vuuren believed the US to be a meritocracy.
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What is a "meritocracy," and do we actually live in one?
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Meritocracy is such an intuitive concept that defining it feels redundant.
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The party was established on the idea of meritocracy and justice.
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"We are a society based on meritocracy," he told El Mundo.
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The tournament format is a true meritocracy: democracy at its finest!
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Especially for a country that fancies itself to be a meritocracy.
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While these examples may seem frivolous, meritocracy fatigue is anything but.
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The meritocracy is striving toward excellence; identity politics is deeply egalitarian.
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Collins credits soccer's global success to its early embrace of meritocracy.
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Trump emerged from neither a log cabin nor the contemporary meritocracy.
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This was meritocracy, the system that we now take for granted.
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Especially for a country that tells itself it is a meritocracy.
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The Marxist part of "The Meritocracy Trap" is the interesting part.
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"There are lots of mixed messages from meritocracy capitalism," Pien says.
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They view globalization, immigration, self-realization and meritocracy as positive concepts.
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It prides itself on solving difficult problems and on being a meritocracy.
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Most perniciously, meritocracy turns life for the elite into an endless competition.
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Second, the ideal of political meritocracy has a long history in China.
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But the alternative ideal—political meritocracy—is particular to China's political context.
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He flattened an inflexible hierarchy, replacing layers of middle management with meritocracy.
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The workplace is not the fair meritocracy we espouse it to be.
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That's explained in the book, in brief, and an idea of meritocracy.
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Bagehot argued that Britain is a "disguised republic" and a hidden meritocracy.
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Meritocracy and the distribution of benefits based on need remain distant prospects.
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His first book, "The Myth of the Meritocracy," was published in 2016.
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On top of this merciless meritocracy is a layer of cruel fortune.
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These high-IQ, low-EQ individuals see the world as a meritocracy.
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They are supremely well-educated and worldly, the cream of American meritocracy.
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In a nutshell, Markovitz argues that meritocracy has made us all miserable.
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American publishing isn't a pure meritocracy any more than America itself is.
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The key to success at Bridgewater has been an idea meritocracy. pic.twitter.
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First, these genetic results reveal the injustice of our so-called meritocracy.
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On Tennis Tennis officials like to view their sport as a meritocracy.
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The message of the meritocracy is that you are what you accomplish.
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But this case is not a defense of meritocracy in college admissions.
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The meritocracy is based on the metaphor that life is a journey.
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The world of the American essay is a democratic one, a meritocracy.
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Yet they insist that such cronyism was just the meritocracy at work.
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Fifty years ago, the worry about meritocracy centered on race and gender.
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You don't have to travel far to get outside the exclusive meritocracy.
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So in my opinion there are three things -- be an IBM meritocracy.
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In all sorts of ways, the liberal meritocracy is closed and self-sustaining.
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"Hamilton" is ultimately all about meritocracy, a hip hop celebration of "winner" culture.
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This is what we can think of as the aspirational critique of meritocracy.
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This is what makes Daniel Markovits's new book The Meritocracy Trap so fascinating.
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That couldn't be further from the truth: When meritocracy is realized, misery abounds.
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For better or worse, meritocracy is the water all of us swim in.
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But electoral democracy at the top would wreck the advantages of political meritocracy.
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Mr Ryan's colleagues are particularly likely to share his opinions on American meritocracy.
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At the same time the meritocracy has acquired a voracious appetite for money.
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Robert Senior, worldwide CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi, said the agency was a meritocracy.
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Meritocracy, more broadly conceived, also saves money and seems to promote economic growth.
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Sports as a meritocracy, with on-field results rewarding hard work and desire.
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But most Germans still prefer their flat, egalitarian meritocracy over bubbly, caffeinated commercialism.
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" Walden noted Shimkus's seniority but said the "conference has always been a meritocracy.
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Use blind resumes in your recruitment process to more aggressively pursue real meritocracy.
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The United States has never been the meritocracy it sometimes pretends to be.
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The President's nominees, all fine choices, reflect his boundless faith in the meritocracy.
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Most of these justices have emerged from insular, privileged backgrounds in the meritocracy.
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Markovits thinks that meritocracy is making everyone miserable, not least the meritocrats themselves.
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We created the meritocracy with good intentions, and now we are its victims.
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"The Meritocracy Trap" does not offer much in the way of policy advice.
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Meritocracy, materialism and smartphones would still induce mental breakdowns among bright young climbers.
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And then there is the more open meritocracy that exists almost everywhere else.
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"I'm an immigrants' kid, and I'm a huge fan of meritocracy," she said.
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" The judge said, "Higher education in this country aspires to be a meritocracy.
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I feel very confident that a meritocracy will make us very demographically pleased.
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It's what the students call a harsh lesson in the limits of meritocracy.
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You hope in a democracy it's a meritocracy, but it's not that way.
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Daniel Markovits on how meritocracy harms everyone, including its winners What makes Daniel Markovits's perspective so interesting is that he doesn't just condemn meritocracy as unfair for non-elites; he argues that it's actually bad for the people benefiting from it.
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The irony of America's class system is its foundation in a culture of meritocracy.
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More common is for force or hierarchy, not the meritocracy of ideas, to win.
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We typically think of meritocracy as a system that rewards the best and brightest.
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On the other hand, the moral intuition behind meritocracy is not at all realized.
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It just meant agreeing that barriers to prohibit meritocracy from functioning should be removed.
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There is also a principled critique of meritocracy, although it is far less common.
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Unlike fascism or totalitarianism, political meritocracy is compatible with most democratic values and practices.
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I think the world of reviews and opinions is now very much a meritocracy.
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Hustle Fund ultimately wants to create a true meritocracy in the venture capital world.
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Is music a meritocracy — an art form that privileges natural talent over everything else?
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A man steps up to bat, alone and self-reliant, the essence of meritocracy.
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There is a fair bit of evidence in favour of the meritocracy Weber championed.
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Core leadership values commonly include respect, meritocracy, empathy, integrity, openness to learning, and collaboration.
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Since then, we've grown up to realize that in many instances, diversity outweighs meritocracy.
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He instilled a culture of meritocracy that helped make Vale Brazil's No. 20083 exporter.
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He rejected the criticism, saying "meritocracy" was a fundamental value of the Singaporean society.
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The film also subtly questions the role of learning and meritocracy in public education.
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It is outright delusional to imagine that Silicon Valley startups form a pure meritocracy.
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It was a meritocracy, so I never had to worry about losing my livelihood.
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In Markovits's telling, the rise of the meritocracy is a story of unintended consequences.
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We pretend we don't tell this lie, but our whole meritocracy points to it.
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Ross thinks the millennial mayor's long résumé belies a rejection of typical elite meritocracy.
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And meritocracy — formerly benevolent and just — has become what it was invented to combat.
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And most important, has he truly woken up from the American dream of meritocracy?
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They've dissolved the shared moral cultures that used to restrain capitalism and the meritocracy.
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In 2012, he published his first book "Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy."
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The triumph of meritocracy, Young understood, would lead to a loss of political community.
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For a long time, Americans have bought into the meritocracy, the American dream ideal.
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Opinion Columnist There are at least two kinds of meritocracy in America right now.
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In the exclusive meritocracy, prestige is defined by how many people you can reject.
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Parents in the exclusive meritocracy raise their kids to be fit fighters within it.
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I looked at the biggest institutions in the world because of an IBM meritocracy.
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Many prominent venture capitalists now decry government controls and say they favor market meritocracy.
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The scaffolding had rungs and legacy and the myth of meritocracy fixed in white.
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If you want an organization to be really, really successful, this is the key to Bridgewater success, then you want a real idea meritocracy because the person also on the other side of that idea meritocracy will say the system is fair.
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His latest book is Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of the Meritocracy.
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If a strict meritocracy were ever warranted, surely it is on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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The challenge, of course, is that like most of these groups, Neo is no meritocracy.
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You're just being ..." I used the phrase, "It's not a meritocracy, it's a mirror-tocracy.
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Well, maybe the best we can hope for is to live in an imperfect meritocracy.
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Markovits's modest policy recommendations for compressing American meritocracy fall well short of a comprehensive agenda.
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But he was only half-successful when it came to launching the debate about "meritocracy".
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In doing so, the billionaire's daughter stepped into a land that prides itself on meritocracy.
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Today's billionaire kings have a divine right to their largesse because the meritocracy said so.
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And in the true meritocracy that is the zombie-plagued world, his skills are king.
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Draped in the rhetoric of accountability and meritocracy, journalism is an industry in unmitigated decline.
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"Dynastic wealth, the enemy of a meritocracy, is on the rise," Buffett said in 2007.
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The charges confirmed what almost everyone already suspected: Our higher education system is no meritocracy.
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In 23, sociologist Michael Young wrote a dark satire called The Rise of the Meritocracy.
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But I think the book in some ways deflates this idea that it's a meritocracy.
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"Meritocracy places a strong need for young people to strive, perform and achieve," he said.
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"People think the canon is a product of some really impartial meritocracy," Ms. Curtis said.
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"They believe passionately in the principles of capitalism" and in a "competitive meritocracy," he added.
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I want to do it out in the open because that enhances an IBM meritocracy.
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But such an outcome is unthinkable in today's Democratic Party obsessed with fairness and meritocracy.
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The folks who have successfully ascended the meritocracy and jumped through all the collegiate hoops.
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The show dramatizes a romantic vision of our economy, depicting it as a bootstrap meritocracy.
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I see the echoes of the boomer belief in independence and meritocracy in the millennials.
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To the Editor: David Brooks ponders why American meritocracy has failed to deliver good government.
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It is the closest thing to a true meritocracy that exists in the video business.
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Excerpted from Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy by Robert H. Frank.
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I tend to think that yes, once it bends towards truth, it bends toward a meritocracy.
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Walter fostered an open, entrepreneurial meritocracy – one that carries through to this day at JPMorgan Chase.
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OneWorld, 2017"Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy", by Robert H. Frank.
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On a purely descriptive level, though, I think we do live in something like a meritocracy.
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Markovits's analysis leads him to the opposite conclusion: Rising inequality is the product of meritocracy itself.
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It's a very American idea, at once idealistic and rooted in a blind faith in meritocracy.
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Throughout it all, what was important was to keep faith—faith in meritocracy, faith in America.
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Dimon said Shipley was widely respected as a "straight shooter" who fostered an open, entrepreneurial meritocracy.
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That means, among other things, a commitment to meritocracy, rather than promotion through cronyism or kinship.
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Free expression, egalitarianism, meritocracy—these are the moral positions the Valley has embraced since its infancy.
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Why it matters: Many Silicon Valley leaders believe they've created a meritocracy that's working just fine.
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The WASP ascendency, he argues, faced a crisis of faith in the 1960s, surrendering to meritocracy.
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Believing in meritocracy, she thought she could power through any inequity by working twice as hard.
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Ideally, college would function as a counterbalance to the rigged games of American capitalism and meritocracy.
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The other scandals are less amusing, involving dilemmas of race and meritocracy with no celebrity leaven.
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HQ is a little app that channels big feelings about the fundamental lie of the meritocracy.
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We need to build a meritocracy that is true to its values, truly open to all.
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Like most other American systems and professions, delusions around meritocracy continue to pervade the writing world.
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In other words, for the left, meritocracy always seems to favor people just like Pete Buttigieg.
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This model welcomes diversity, meritocracy, immigration and open trade for all the dynamism these things unleash.
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To deny the role of family help fuels our larger cultural mythology around meritocracy and deservedness.
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" This inversion of what meritocratic education sought to achieve is the subject of "The Meritocracy Trap.
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He and other critics could be right that meritocracy, like free-market capitalism, generates inequalities naturally.
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For decades now, Republicans and Democrats have shared the same mythology around the great American meritocracy.
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We teach them they're in a meritocracy — until we leave them on their own come adulthood.
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He says it results in a "meritocracy," or a culture in which the best idea wins.
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There's plenty of politics in the building trades, but there's also an ethos of craft meritocracy.
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But that's the natural conclusion when you buy into the bs fairytale of the American meritocracy.
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Science Times at 233 Many women in science thought that meritocracy was the antidote to sexism.
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The Twilight of the Elites argues that the mythology of meritocracy holds all of this together.
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Meritocracy is blind to the fact that some people face structural disadvantages and others do not.
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But race may be key to understanding who is more likely to make the meritocracy argument.
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But nostalgia for what was best about the old establishment might point to a more radical theory of the case, one proposed by Helen Andrews in a 2016 Hedgehog Review essay on meritocracy and its discontents: The meritocracy is hardening into an aristocracy — so let it.
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Prime Minister Lee said he would continue to uphold meritocracy as a fundamental value of Singaporean society.
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Perhaps that's the mechanism through which meritocracy works, through which people really do get what they deserve?
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The belief that we live in a meritocracy is one of our oldest and most persistent illusions.
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The real threat to meritocracy, however, comes not from within the universities but from society at large.
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The internet has not, contra its early advertising, done away with gatekeepers or created an egalitarian meritocracy.
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"I'd like to see the myth of meritocracy be real in the restaurant industry," Mistry tells me.
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Letter 131 The author and essayist shares insights on immigrant striving, social media and Australia's imperfect meritocracy.
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At its core, The Meritocracy Trap is a comprehensive — and rather scathing — critique of the aspirational view.
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Aspirational critics tend to believe that rising inequality since the 1970s is the product of insufficient meritocracy.
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When Markovits writes that meritocracy "fundamentally remakes elite life," he means it in the most dystopian sense.
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Brooke Harrington of Copenhagen Business School worries that the growth of FOs is undermining meritocracy in capitalism.
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That said, however, it is impossible to look at the country without seeing Young's dystopian meritocracy everywhere.
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That's the other thing that I think — Silicon Valley often lies to itself that it's a meritocracy.
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This evolution has been widely hailed as a triumph of meritocracy over privilege, and professionalism over amateurism.
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"The best case would be to do away with the cap, and do a meritocracy," Kapadia said.
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The Israeli health system is supposed to be a meritocracy, with many Israeli-Arab doctors and nurses.
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In the course of a summer, Silicon Valley's reputation has devolved from progressive meritocracy to sexist cesspool.
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There's no meritocracy that benefits incisive songwriting, textured singing, bold attitude — not in Nashville or anywhere else.
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It's a genuine meritocracy, and a lot of it is attributed to the way that he creates.
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It is a domain driven entirely by the idea of superior technique and a meritocracy of skills.
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"You've heard the term meritocracy?" said a Liveops official named Aimee Matolka at the North Carolina event.
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" Here's some more advice for new members: Former Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.): "This is a meritocracy.
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The emotion of the meritocracy is conditional love — that if you perform well, people will love you.
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It suggests, in fact, that when meritocracy loses credibility and legitimacy, the result is a political impasse.
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But lately my skepticism about meritocracy itself has made me doubt whether we need more of it.
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I would challenge those people to use the words "Brett Ratner" and "meritocracy" in the same sentence.
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Meritocracy remains the civil creed, even as large economic forces have further deprived noncollege workers of opportunity.
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He is the author, most recently, of Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy.
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Indeed, Philippine democracy — with its reign of celebrity, dynasties and nepotism — is the opposite of a meritocracy.
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With all due respect, I'm afraid that a meritocracy could work only if the game weren't rigged.
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Daniel Markovits, in " The Meritocracy Trap " (Penguin Press), thinks that the whole idea was a terrible mistake.
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They put their trust in webs of internships and institutional affiliations—crony capitalism as the new meritocracy.
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The subject of this Opinion essay is how first-generation students learn about the myth of meritocracy.
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At its best, the competitive spirit of meritocracy has created extraordinary prosperity and a wealth of new ideas.
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You don't live in a meritocracy if all the gatekeepers are predominately, Anglo able-bodied heterosexual cisgender men.
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It assumes that a meritocracy that genuinely rewards the best and the brightest will leave everyone better off.
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You know, I say this all the time, the meritocracy is a mirror-tocracy, it's a mirror-tocracy.
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Optimally, these multidisciplinary teams are further supported through evolved organizational and management-thinking that favors meritocracy over rigidity.
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The myth of meritocracy, according to Frank, can make us less willing to invest in the collective good.
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But as at St. Paul's, a Silicon Valley private school like Harker's meritocracy is inherently structured upon exclusivity.
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It isn't clear to me meritocracy would lead to a less privilege-aware elite is a convoluted argument.
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The company, Musk liked to say, was a "meritocracy," and Vandermeyden wanted to be a part of it.
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It is the sweetest deal around and turns the idea of America as a meritocracy on its head.
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A lot of people are losing faith in the dubious meritocracy of the college admissions system right now.
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Having individual agency is strongly connected to the idea of a meritocracy, where the deserving are granted rewards.
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The false promise of the meritocracy is that you can earn dignity by attaching yourself to prestigious brands.
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The great achievement of the meritocracy is that it has widened opportunities to those who were formerly oppressed.
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"There's this Anglo-Saxon culture that he mixes with the French culture of the meritocracy," Mr. Fourquet said.
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Not every country in the world has that kind of training grounds and meritocracy that goes with it.
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Today's radicals do not want to upend the meritocracy, which is creating a caste system of inherited inequality.
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Hayes acknowledges that meritocracy has advantages over the system of special privilege for white Protestants that it replaced.
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He argues that the equality of opportunity that meritocracy promises will inevitably be overwhelmed by inequality of outcome.
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Yet meritocracy ultimately undermines equality of opportunity because the successful are best placed to pass on their high status.
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These policies can enhance meritocracy by allowing talented people from disadvantaged backgrounds to have an equal shot at success.
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It is not surprising, then, that most criticism of meritocracy is made by those who accept its basic principles.
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The book is Michael Young's "The Rise of the Meritocracy"—and it was published 60 years ago this year.
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"Is it meritocracy that it was the Rolling Stones and the Beatles and Elvis" who became music's biggest hits?
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It is have an idea meritocracy which pursues meaningful work and meaningful relationships through radical truth and radical transparency.
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A: A family business has to be run as a meritocracy and as a business, not a 'family' business.
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America has always presented itself as a "meritocracy," where success is solely the result of talent and hard work.
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"We are not going to operate like the others, we will not be appointing managers without meritocracy," Tsipras said.
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Senior leaders argue that an efficient meritocracy doesn't discriminate, and promoting the most talented individuals is good for business.
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The meritocracy measures you by how much you've accomplished; identity politics measures you by how much you've been oppressed.
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The students Heller describes sense the moral emptiness of the current meritocracy and are groping for lives of purpose.
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Its spoils, coupled with the false narrative that we live in a meritocracy, have dulled our sense of empathy.
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In many ways, the tech industry is a meritocracy, which is both a good thing and a bad thing.
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At the same time, the government sought to build a Singaporean national identity based on multiracialism, equality and meritocracy.
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" The lack of real meritocracy in our country today, he added, "is not about the returns to realized skills.
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Charges against parents accused of gaming the admissions process are a defense of the institutions' property, not of meritocracy.
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As I have said time and again: Silicon Valley thinks it is a meritocracy, but it is a mirrortocracy.
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In our universe, though, the meritocracy of talent expects the chosen to actually go out and try to rule.
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One of his main arguments is that "meritocracy" has warped so that it is no longer based on merit.
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The term "meritocracy" was invented in the nineteen-fifties with a satirical intent that has now mostly been lost.
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Despite Markovits's hyperbole and overwriting, his conception of meritocracy as a machine that runs itself is a powerful one.
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"We are as close to a meritocracy as is possible," said a spokeswoman for the university, Kathy A. Svitil.
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Meritocracy is what we call the well-traveled roads connecting Harvard with Wall Street and Stanford with Silicon Valley.
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" In a lengthy interview with Business Insider, Dalio aimed to clarify his firm's effort to create an "idea meritocracy.
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This issue has divided Asians and others who debate the relative benefits of diversity versus meritocracy in our society.
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I think one of the reasons that we're not considered a family enterprise is because we have a meritocracy.
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Mr. Kalanick created a ruthless meritocracy in which high-achievers are rewarded and underachievers are shown the door — fast.
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The myth of meritocracy in college admissions was exposed, as were the delusions of impunity among the wealthy culprits.
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The quasi-aristocracy of the WASP upper class has been replaced by a "meritocracy" of a more varied elite.
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They tell us that the world should be different, and that the problem is that it isn't a meritocracy.
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"If it's a meritocracy, sorry guys, you proved your merit that you don't deserve to be here," Kunst said.
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The ruling liberal elite tell themselves that they preside over a healthy meritocracy and that they have earned their privileges.
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"Through that extreme openness and a meritocracy of thought, we identify and solve problems better," Dalio writes on his blog.
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Because companies that consider themselves a meritocracy are the least meritocratic of anyone because they don't acknowledge their innate biases.
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I wouldn't want to argue about whether meritocracy or racism, for example, is the greatest impediment to equality of opportunity.
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Amid growing inequality, society's winners told themselves that they lived in a meritocracy—and that their success was therefore deserved.
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In a mature meritocracy, schools and jobs dominate elite life so immersively that they leave no self apart from status.
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On the other hand, one of the essential features of the sort of meritocracy we have today is intensive competition.
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He is the author of numerous books, including The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy (Princeton, 2015).
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The problem is that people often don't see the myth of meritocracy as a myth; they really believe in it.
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Based on principles of meritocracy, Colony encourages people to invest their time, unique expertise, feedback and ideas in global projects.
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The subcommittee wants to preserve that meritocracy and secured passage in the full House of the Consumer Review Fairness Act.
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The meritocracy places tremendous emphasis on individual agency; identity politics argues that agency is limited within a system of oppression.
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AND I UNDERSTAND MAYBE A NEO-CAPITALIST VIEWPOINT – IN THE MOST SIMPLISTIC TERMS, I MEAN WE DO HAVE A MERITOCRACY.
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That he has not been signed, even to a backup position, is a damaging rebuttal to the cries of meritocracy.
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The idea of a meritocracy is a pleasant abstraction, but does it actually square with the reality of human life?
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They just sign on the dotted line, and no one ever said that getting a Nike deal was a meritocracy.
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Laugh at life as a shit show, instead of pretending it's just about meritocracy and that fastidious protestant work ethic.
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These studies have forced introspection upon many economists, making it difficult to believe that the field is really a meritocracy.
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In the wake of the Operation Varsity Blues college admissions scandal, how should meritocracy, elitism and college sports be handled?
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In my assessment, his success is in part because he was willing to expose the lie of the American meritocracy.
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The book's model of a town that is decaying because of the scourge of meritocracy is St. Clair Shores, Michigan.
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It's an utterly absorbing, utterly enlightening, utterly important book about classism in American higher education and the myth of meritocracy.
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In "The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class and Devours the Elite," published Sept.
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Because if they were worthy than according to the myth of the American meritocracy, they would be making more money.
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How about this: While there may indeed be important exceptions (the sciences, for example), American meritocracy is largely a myth.
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But that in itself doesn't guarantee meritocracy any more than providing a choice of 50 flavors guarantees good ice cream.
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I think it's interesting because something I would always say is that Silicon Valley thinks of itself as a meritocracy.
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But to point out the presence of tribalism in Trump's appeal doesn't mean that the decay of meritocracy is unimportant.
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I have my saying that I always say that they think they are a meritocracy but they're a mirror-tocracy.
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And let's not kid ourselves: tech may be more meritocratic than some other industries, but it's far from a perfect meritocracy.
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So, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that some of these people simply don't care about even the illusion of meritocracy.
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But the protection afforded by documentation and blue passports can cloud the vision of those who believe in an American meritocracy.
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China is happy for similar reasons: the victory of Mr Trump makes its system of tightly controlled meritocracy shine by comparison.
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For them, the ideal of meritocracy is flawed and must be replaced either by radical egalitarianism or a return to aristocracy.
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Clearly, Markovits is no fan of the meritocracy, though he isn't willing to go so far as to reject it outright.
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Fourth, survey results consistently show widespread support for the ideal of political meritocracy in China, especially at higher levels of government.
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The idea of America as a meritocracy is so ingrained in our culture that it's taught in schools as a fact.
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He inadvertently and completely unscientifically predicts a public health crisis, and unwittingly encapsulates the ongoing problem of privilege masquerading as meritocracy.
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Thus the claims by some prominent venture capitalists that Silicon Valley is a genuine meritocracy, are actually proof of unintentional bias.
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When a man at the top is granting favors in exchange for sexual access, it poisons the meritocracy of the workplace.
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In the 1950s Michael Young coined the word "meritocracy" to describe a new ruling elite, nastier than an aristocracy or plutocracy.
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Beneath its carefully constructed appearance of meritocracy are the world's most powerful people, pulling strings, turning gears, and winning every time.
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One investment banking analyst in Morgan Stanley's London office said the company offered good pay, meritocracy and a strong working culture.
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It's caused by the status code of modern meritocracy, which encourages people to pursue success symbols that they don't actually desire.
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He also discussed "idea meritocracy," which involves having the courage to make the best decision in difficult circumstances, regardless of opinion.
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Nearly every chapter in the American anti-meritocracy literature makes this charge, in what is usually its most empirically reinforced chapter.
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The scandal set off a contentious debate around higher education's role in solidifying generational privilege, challenging the myth of a meritocracy.
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The other was the brainpower/meritocracy story associated with Gary Hart and later the New Democrats: Americans are masters at innovation.
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Because of this, Singer argued, meritocracy on its own does not produce a society that gives equal consideration to everyone's interests.
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I went back to Young's book because I've been writing recently (to some controversy) about the faults of our own meritocracy.
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Elites of all stripes were so detached they didn't see how untrammeled meritocracy divides societies between the "fittest" and the rest.
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While highly measured and optimized workplaces are meritocratic, he said, meritocracy can be carried to an extreme, citing the movie Gattaca.
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Our whole educational system, furthermore, was once based on the notion that some people were more capable than others, a meritocracy.
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G.L. LOMAX, SAN FRANCISCO To the Editor: David Brooks admires our country's progress to a meritocracy, while clearly explaining its weaknesses.
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I spoke to Markovits about how meritocracy works, what it's doing to us, and what a post-meritocratic society might look like.
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Meritocracy is the idea that people get ahead based on their own accomplishments rather than, for example, on their parents' social class.
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But the march of academic meritocracy has now slowed to a crawl, and, on some fronts, has even turned into a retreat.
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The suspicion that Cinthia had that the fashion industry was not the meritocracy that she had hoped was echoed within the PDF.
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No politically significant force can get far by campaigning for the abolition of electoral democracy and for the establishment of political meritocracy.
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Admissions scandal reveals 'aristocracy masquerading as a meritocracy' These kinds of letters are standard in white collar cases, according to the official.
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Talent still does matter, according to economist Robert H. Frank, author of Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy.
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Or teach them that the tech world isn't a meritocracy and that the best you can do is try to be happy.
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If this is what Western democracy produces, the logic runs, maybe China's illiberal form of self-proclaimed meritocracy is not so bad.
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Among them are Ralph Nader, a veteran political activist, and Ron Unz, author of a number of searing articles on American meritocracy.
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"The system is rigged" has served, beyond politics, as blunt and useful shorthand for systemic injustice and the limits of American meritocracy.
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You needn't look much beyond Daniel Markovitz's "The Meritocracy Trap" to get a comprehensive understanding of why billionaires are terrified by Sen.
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In addition to a "motherhood penalty" and behavioral biases, the IA said that in financial services, there were "limitations in real meritocracy".
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Meritocracy and respect for credentials both have their place in a society that needs competent leaders to hold the reins of government.
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The meritocracy has declared us to be the winners, and once it's been decided that you're a winner, it's hard to lose.
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They are especially important for our understanding of meritocracy, because many see admissions to those universities as the ultimate demonstration of merit.
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I think the second thing is, I do think people really want to believe that tech is meritocracy and they are meritocratic.
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But we were also small-town teenagers trying to bond as a team in an apprehensive meritocracy of helmets and shoulder pads.
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"Meritocracy traps entire generations inside demeaning fears and inauthentic ambitions: always hungry, never finding, or even knowing, the right food," he says.
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In "The Meritocracy Trap," Daniel Markovits delivers a fierce indictment of a system he says is undermining democracy and making everyone miserable.
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" The Bridgewater Associates founder and chairman was answering questions on the unusual culture at his hedge fund known as an "idea meritocracy.
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" In his authoritative biography of Henry Aaron, Howard Bryant wrote: "Hitting, it could be argued, represented the first meritocracy in Henry's life.
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Or take the present case of discrimination against Asian students at Harvard, a kind of negative double-standard far removed from meritocracy.
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We, the ascenders of the meritocracy will decide what is to be done about these poor struggling denizens of the working class.
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If "The Best and the Brightest" is a brief against the East Coast meritocracy, though, its proposed alternative is not pure ideology.
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The reason that I would agree with you is because I have never seen a true meritocracy that wasn't more demographically diverse.
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Hayes's book describes how meritocracy is breaking down, and how American elites and middle-class people are increasingly disconnected from each other.
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The students say they are pushing for a Thai meritocracy to replace what they see as corruption and nepotism in the system.
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Being a dour Scot and not exactly filled with inspiration by the current lack of meritocracy within the dance scene, I wasn't convinced.
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WILLIAM GLADSTONE dominated 19th-century British politics and helped shift government away from the preserve of the aristocracy to something approaching a meritocracy.
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So you're saying that a world in which meritocracy works is, by definition, a bad world, a world that engineers and reproduces inequalities.
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Markovits argues that meritocracy itself is the problem: It produces radical inequality, stifles social mobility, and makes everyone — including the apparent winners — miserable.
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China's 2,000-year history with a complex bureaucratic system can be viewed as a constant effort to institutionalise the ideal of political meritocracy.
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Singapore normally prides itself on being a meritocracy, in contrast to neighbouring Malaysia, where Malays and other indigenous groups are accorded special privileges.
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Part of what happens when we abandon the myth of meritocracy is that we're better able to see the merit all around us.
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American Idol's premise—the idea that an ordinary person might be recognized as extraordinary—is firmly rooted in a national myth of meritocracy.
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I think that we need to move past taking it kind of full circle to this idea that Silicon Valley is a meritocracy.
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Inside the firm, BTG Pactual describes its culture as both unique and one that has entrepreneurialism and meritocracy at the heart of it.
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Gu says American football culture is all about meritocracy and propagating the idea that if you train hard, you can be a champion.
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Even if one ultimately finds it unpersuasive, it's certainly not the boilerplate defense of American "meritocracy" that underlies Republican arguments against affirmative action.
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"The moral tone of this language makes it seem like the platforms have this disinterested neutral mission to ensure content meritocracy," Petre says.
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Somewhat ironically, the failures of establishment institutions were the central theme of Chris Hayes's 2012 book, Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy.
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Rather, it includes people of varying income levels who share a belief in meritocracy and, consequently, desire to express their acquisition of knowledge.
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It would be difficult to argue that such animus was related to deeply held ideological beliefs about meritocracy in society and rugged individualism.
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"The system of meritocracy does not account for the declines in productivity and morale as a result of sexual harassment," says the report.
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But it's telling that these were the crucibles in which he and other members of our ostensible meritocracy forged their identities and connections.
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The anthropology of the meritocracy is that you are not a soul to be saved but a set of skills to be maximized.
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Surely, if true meritocracy exists, the numbers would reflect that, but in reality only a pitiful handful are represented in the top companies.
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So for them to conclude that their own wealth is undeserved, and therefore immoral, constitutes a powerful critique of the idea of meritocracy.
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Meritocracy is a system built on the maximization of individual talent, and that system unwittingly encourages several ruinous beliefs: Exaggerated faith in intelligence.
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He was the first to explain that even though "meritocracy" might sound good to most people, a meritocratic society would be a disaster.
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The weirdest claim in "The Meritocracy Trap" is that the American educational system is designed to produce super-skilled dealmakers and number crunchers.
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It's a subject explored with a number of Silicon Valley luminaries lately, as the tech capital's meritocracy facade has shown some recent cracks.
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We've grown far too comfortable with segregated schools that announce themselves as a meritocracy but function as a system for hoarding white privilege.
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I will say that the weird thing about Silicon Valley, it's the first place I've ever been where meritocracy has a bad name.
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We're a meritocracy, and you can come to this country with nothing and wind up funding the next Google or PayPal or Yahoo.
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I think what's interesting, and I've always said this, is that they think it's a meritocracy, which they go on and on about.
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I want to circle back to something you alluded to earlier, which is that meritocracy is toxic even for those who profit from it.
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Many male economists seem to reckon the meritocracy is functioning perfectly well, with no problems to fix; men presumably dominate because of superior ability.
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A fascinating book by Mark Bovens and Anchrit Wille, "Diploma Democracy", shows that what they call political meritocracy is advancing across the rich world.
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Mbue's book feels especially relevant in our present moment, as xenophobia dominates the news cycle and meritocracy can often feel like a fading promise.
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He acknowledged that some may knock this arrangement for going against the principle of meritocracy, but he said critics should consider two key points.
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The established model of meritocracy—if you get views, you get money—seems to be changing, and some YouTubers are looking to jump ship.
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Thirty-one year old Oh, who stayed back in Melbourne after her graduation there said she won't return to Malaysia unless meritocracy is restored.
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This situation — a patina of genteel progressivism atop a churning engine of amoral meritocracy — is inherently unstable and was bound to produce a counterreaction.
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They are too personally invested in the myth of meritocracy to admit what the poor already know, which is that there's no such thing.
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In the long term, it might be seen as unfair if you live in a kind of social democracy—or meritocracy, if you will.
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I think what the audience loves about Drag Race is that, unlike so many other reality shows, it is a bit of a meritocracy.
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According to ProPublica, Jackson, who hasn't had much experience in civil rights litigation, has been a vocal opponent of feminism and race-based meritocracy.
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Bush, Douthat argues, was an exemplary member of the old WASP elite whose rule has been replaced by a grasping and often incompetent meritocracy.
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This is both a troubling statement about the elite-driven corruption of capitalism and meritocracy as well as a window into Biden's political liabilities.
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I asked this question of 14 tech founders (including one billionaire), and all predicted that a meritocracy would lead to a very unequal economy.
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But then the great engine of the meritocracy spits people out into a young adulthood that is less structured than it has ever been.
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The American myth of meritocracy allows them to attribute their position to their brilliance and diligence, rather than to luck or a rigged system.
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This is anathema to liberals, for whom individuals must think and act primarily as individuals, lest conformity overflow judgment, capsize meritocracy, and drown democracy.
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For one thing, universities should be scouring their budgets, looking for spending that's less important to their mission than economic diversity and meritocracy are.
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In one word it's an IBM meritocracy which the goal is to have meaningful work and meaningful relationships through radical truthfulness and radical transparency.
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Richard V. Reeves, author of "Dream Hoarders," argues that class segregation is harming America's middle class and its idea of itself as a meritocracy.
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If this were a true meritocracy, which I don't think it ever has been, then Kameron Michaels being so boring wouldn't be a factor.
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The idea of meritocracy tells elites that they deserve their superior position because they work harder and have greater natural ability than ordinary people.
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Meritocracy has opened up elite institutions like Harvard and Princeton, which used to discriminate systematically against Jews and African Americans and not admit women.
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For all the talk of tech being a meritocracy, Silicon Valley has a long and storied history of protecting its own, bad behavior be damned.
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As are people who will say it's hard, some folks in venture don't feel that it's a meritocracy, being a young person at a firm.
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Under a philosophy Dalio dubs "idea meritocracy," staff are expected to openly give and receive feedback — good and bad — regardless of their level or position.
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It posits that the problem with our current system isn't the ideal of meritocracy itself but our collective failure to live up to that ideal.
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If only we could replace the forces of aristocracy, oligarchy, and corruption with a genuine meritocracy, then we would have a just and equal society.
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The new market structure has changed the rules, allowing for a fairer system based on meritocracy that was not necessarily possible in the desktop era.
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I think it's a great, honest meritocracy, and I have watched the way people work here and tried to learn from the best of them.
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Fighting games have long heralded themselves as a meritocracy, where anyone with a quarter and a will to fight can be part of something greater.
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America's all-volunteer military is truly the best of us: A color-blind meritocracy where the best and brightest can advance regardless of their origins.
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"Football is a meritocracy," Tony Romo once said, midway through a speech that will be remembered as the high-water mark of his public approval.
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The meritocracy sees the university as a gem tumbler, a bouncing place where people crash off one another and thereby hone their thoughts and skills.
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Arguments against meritocracy, then, often come off sounding like sour grapes, or like a call to return to a world of landed gentry and feudalism.
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It's between those who see opportunity and excitement in the emerging globalized, multiethnic meritocracy against those who see their lives and communities threatened by it.
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"Dynastic wealth, the enemy of a meritocracy, is on the rise," Buffett said during a Senate Finance Committee hearing about the federal estate tax 2007.
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The one where poor black children need unforgiving discipline to overcome the inevitable obstacles in their lives so they can vault themselves into the meritocracy.
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It's easier for someone who believes the world is a meritocracy to empathize with someone who clearly didn't bring something on themselves, like Syrian refugees.
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If you have 60 years of radical individualism and ruthless meritocracy, you're going to end up with a society that is atomized, distrustful and divided.
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In a society that had long been defined by tribal connections, the company modeled itself as a meritocracy offering young hopefuls the chance for advancement.
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This requires an education on how racism exposes the myth of American meritocracy and the acknowledgment of the existence of white privilege and its benefits.
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In 1999, Hawking appeared at the end of Season 10, in the episode "They Saved Lisa's Brain," saving the day when Springfield's utopian meritocracy crumbled.
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" The middle class, broadly defined, is of course an outcast in the meritocracy, left behind in what Markovits calls "a stagnant, depleted and shrinking world.
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In an earlier opinion piece, I described the transformation from meritocracy to mediocracy, in terms of the political correctness that serves as its public face.
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The bargain they made with Korea's fierce meritocracy was simple: in exchange for our hard work, give us security and prosperity -- in a word, yeoyu.
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The media had few options other than to trust Facebook to use technology to create a meritocracy for the content itself, the industry's last foothold.
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On the latest episode of GPS, Zakaria says Trump's victory has highlighted the division between urban versus rural and the winners and losers in America's meritocracy.
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"The moment we start kind of questioning the idea that this is a meritocracy," he added, "our tolerance for economic inequality begins to kind of crumble."
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Yet, as the conservative writer Helen Andrews has observed, almost all of the attacks end by prescribing small tweaks to make meritocracy work ever more efficiently.
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Klein and Markovits discuss this in their interview: The meritocracy ... starts when you're young and have the space for it, but then it shapes your personality.
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Removing the barriers faced by underrepresented groups would not transform the profession overnight, but would inject a bracing gust of competition into the field's imperfect meritocracy.
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In short, the ideological challenge to liberalism centres mainly on the value of political meritocracy versus electoral democracy as a method for selecting top political leaders.
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The ideal of political meritocracy may not be an appropriate standard for evaluating political progress (and regress) in societies where the ideal is not widely shared.
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Some of the biggest changes in recent decades have made the meritocracy even more intolerable than it was in the glory days of the 11-plus.
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"The Lobby is creating the real meritocracy that we tell ourselves the job market is –– or at least should be," said Matt Mireles in a statement.
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Conservative values emphasize the protection of the status quo; addressing immediate, external threats; economic protection; upholding meritocracy; and the ability to justify one group dominating another.
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But it's increasingly hard to square the idea of meritocracy with a system that consistently conveys structural advantages on those born into wealth and social connections.
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Founder Ray Dalio has described it in a recent Ted Talk as a place where "radical transparency" and algorithmic group decision making create an ideal meritocracy.
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It is also, of course, a story about Mr Rubio's own exceptionalism—as some voters, knowing American meritocracy is often more promise than reality, intuitively understand.
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For the left-wing author and documentarian Astra Taylor, "Tyranny" was a healthy reminder that Silicon Valley's rhetoric of openness and meritocracy doesn't match the reality.
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Since then, he has championed the notion of an "idea meritocracy," where everyone is encouraged to lay her or his own principles out on the table.
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And though tech ... And I think the problem with the tech industry is it sees itself as this very kind of libertarian meritocracy, like not us.
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Not only is the meritocracy not remotely meritocratic and the American Dream a complete fantasy, but the whole concept is immoral nonsense in the first place.
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General skepticism about meritocracy and opportunity, felt most acutely by marginalized groups who couldn't see themselves in picket-fence campaign ads, had yet to go mainstream.
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You know, I've always said to you, and I think you agree with me, that Silicon Valley has always been a mirror-tocracy rather than meritocracy.
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Most of the people who emerge as big winners today do tend to be talented and hard-working, so there's at least a semblance of meritocracy.
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And it was a writing clinic too — an easygoing democracy and a strict meritocracy where professional comedy writers and stand-ups could riff alongside random civilians.
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We still like to picture our higher-education system as the linchpin of a meritocracy, like a public utility that sorts the accomplished from the rest.
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The sociology of the meritocracy is that society is organized around a set of inner rings with the high achievers inside and everyone else further out.
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When Berkeley went all in for meritocracy, they got a campus on which nearly a third of students were Asian, and they were fine with that.
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And an occasional critique against conscious efforts to diversify the court is meritocracy: that potential justices should be chosen for their legal acumen and judicial temperament.
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In her memoir "Uncanny Valley," she describes falling down a rabbit hole into Silicon Valley's strange world of six-figure salaries, unbridled optimism and ersatz meritocracy.
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Michael Young, the British sociologist who in the middle of the last century coined the term "meritocracy," would not be surprised by the turn of events.
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"The Meritocracy Trap" is an exhausting book—bombastic, repetitive, and single-minded to the point of obsession, a mixture of Cotton Mather, Karl Marx, and MAGA .
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Another, grimmer answer is that the modern meritocracy has too many flaws and contradictions to either allow dramatic reform or to command widespread support without it.
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Another, grimmer answer is that the modern meritocracy has too many flaws and contradictions to either allow dramatic reform or to command widespread support without it.
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So the three steps that you need to do to have an IBM meritocracy is first, you have to put your honest thoughts on the table.
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Meritocracy and toe-stepping can empower individuals to speak truth to power, but if weaponized can lead to people getting stepped on — speaking power to truth.
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These CEOs have truly shown the beauty of an operational meritocracy that allows for the advancement of those who work hard and deliver value to society.
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Where your only goal is to make sure every little boy and girl has the ability to ascend to their rightful rung on the meritocracy ladder.
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If meritocracy was intended to replace a society based on inherited entitlement, then there had to be a way for the successful to proclaim their superiority.
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Sestak explains how two tenets of the American character — individualism and common enterprise — underlie his proposed policy positions to help restore the nation's system of meritocracy.
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But he understood her great limitation: that she represented the nexus between meritocracy and plutocracy, indebted to Big Money and divorced from millions of heartland Americans.
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Nonetheless these parents [allegedly] concluded that these kids couldn't make it in this rigged meritocracy, which is just a stunning lack of faith in one's offspring.
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That could promote more meritocracy in an industry known for talking a lot about it despite tons of privilege given to founders of certain complexions or pedigrees.
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"Rahm always said this quote, 'Politics is the last true meritocracy,'" Mike Plante, a seasoned opposition researcher who worked closely with Avenatti and Emanuel, told BuzzFeed News.
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And the moral intuition behind meritocracy is that it creates an elite that is capable and effective and that it gives everybody a fair chance at success.
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The idea of a meritocracy: to study hard and to work your way up really was invented pretty much by Confucius in 803 B.C., and carried through.
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This book is an opportunity for all of us to step out of the water and perhaps conclude that the meritocracy we have built is failing us.
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Here too, there is a large gap between the ideal and reality—corruption and lack of checks against abuses of power are obvious threats to political meritocracy.
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Price hopes her photo project, Techies, will inspire people who do fit the stereotype to reconsider if tech is really the meritocracy they believe it to be.
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KEITH HOWELLWest Linton, Scottish Borders Whatever its intentions, the effect of Michael Young's "The Rise of the Meritocracy" has been to entrench an elite (Bagehot, February 10th).
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" Although Perens said he thinks the Code of Conduct is going to be "just fine," he said he was "wary of some of the anti-meritocracy material.
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"Valve sells Steam as a meritocracy, but sharp discontinuities in traffic from overnight changes like The October Bug shatter any remaining faith in that promise," Doucet wrote.
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Glossy and upbeat, the show, which débuted after 27/22007 but before the economic collapse, introduced itself as a stirring advertisement for Wall Street as a meritocracy.
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"I particularly want to explain how a great idea meritocracy with radical truth and radical transparency really works," Dalio said in a video attached to the post.
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"My own career went from disappointing to a rapid journey to the top when I moved from a very traditional environment to a true meritocracy," Morrissey said.
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The term "meritocracy" was Young's own coining, and he chose it to denote a new aristocracy based on expertise and test-taking instead of breeding and titles.
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It's pretty bad, but I think part of it was that tech started out with such a strong belief in it being a meritocracy, and ... And not.
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While I read both of these exchanges, my Kindle was open to "The Rise of the Meritocracy," written in 1958 by the British civil servant Michael Young.
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The "more meritocracy" argument against both legacies and racial quotas implicitly assumes that aptitude — some elixir of I.Q. and work ethic — is what our elite primarily lacks.
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In any meritocracy, there are going to be a lot of people who lose out and do not get the glittering career they think they are due.
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" Mr. Mollicone added that, once in government, the party would "implement a spoils system" for all Culture Ministry appointees, based on "transparency and meritocracy, not ideological membership.
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In the Potterverse, the meritocracy of magic allows the chosen to withdraw, to disappear behind a curtain into their academic world, leaving Muggledom to its own devices.
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But Professor Markovits also claims that meritocracy is as painful for the people on the top rungs of the ladder as it is for those lower down.
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Affirmative action critics often say such programs violate the American principle of meritocracy: that people can go as far as their talent and ambition can take them.
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Yet Trump has repeatedly violated the principle of meritocracy by staffing his administration with relatives and others with little expertise in their areas of responsibility, critics say.
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But I do wish to underscore that college admissions are rife with double-standards and that in thousands of cases meritocracy has nothing to do with admissions.
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To appease strikers, the government gave deputy head-teacher positions to union commissioners, undermining the meritocracy it was trying to build, says Marco Fernández of Tecnológico de Monterrey.
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There's a prevalent attitude among coders that there's a meritocracy — that "code never lies," and therefore the race/gender/wealth of who is doing the coding doesn't matter.
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Molly experiences a mild comeuppance regarding her own superiority complex, but it rests on the assumption that college acceptance is a pure meritocracy, and that she's misjudged everyone.
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And so the big problem that we face isn't merely that the rich cheat, it's that the meritocracy favors the rich even when everybody plays by the rules.
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But a decade later, people are now using a Chrome extension to hide likes and retweet numbers and are questioning whether tracking those numbers creates a false meritocracy.
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Chinese meritocrats emphasise that political meritocracy is particular to the Chinese context Third, the ideal has inspired political reform in China over the last four decades or so.
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The New York Times' demographic and politics trends writer Thomas Edsall recently used the case of education as a way to evaluate the idea of meritocracy in America.
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President Donald Trump and his team like to say he runs a meritocracy, appointing only the most qualified people to the White House staff and top Cabinet positions.
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Like I say in the book, meritocracy is the propaganda that's like a charade, and the weird thing is that one person ... it's not just a lottery, right?
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Meritocracy in cricket made sure the cricketing lineage of Dilip Sardesai was not enough for his son, Rajdeep, to play cricket at the highest level for the country.
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In addition to creating the Contributor Covenant that is the basis of the Linux Code of Conduct, Coraline Ada Ehmke has also been leading the charge against meritocracy.
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And so a woman can direct any movie and a man can direct any movie and you hope you can get it to a meritocracy at some point.
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The process of hypothesis, research, and analysis is at the heart of intellectual endeavor, but it is also metaphorically at the heart of that great American fantasy: meritocracy.
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If the United States were a true meritocracy, most of lawmakers that are fundraising in their splendid offices would need to prepare for a job search next year.
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There are all of the mythologies that intertwine in the process: the farce of a pure meritocracy, of color blindness; a misplaced faith in standard measures of achievement.
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In a culture that claims to value meritocracy, Wall Street is more like the Andover lacrosse team — meritocratic, perhaps, but only among a small subset of the population.
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Yankees 5, Indians 4 CLEVELAND — To understand the desperate straits the Yankees are in, consider the sudden and rare scent of meritocracy that has permeated the lineup card.
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Robert H. Frank is a professor of economics at Cornell University and the author of a new book, Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy.
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"For an established gallery from the West, the beauty and the terror of this fair is that's it's a meritocracy," he said, and not just during the fair.
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Families across the country gear their lives toward a competition to help their children secure a spot in a top college, and hopefully a foothold in the meritocracy.
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The elite and privileged might always exist but we can still demand a meritocracy rather than slinking away quietly and accepting it with our tails between our legs.
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"My students at Yale—the poster children for meritocracy—are more nearly overwhelmed and confounded by their apparent blessings than complacent or even just self-assured," he writes.
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Exclusive meritocracy exists at the super-elite universities and at the industries that draw the bulk of their employees from them — Wall Street, Big Law, medicine and tech.
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Yes, our modern-day, SAT-based meritocracy seems more objective than do some earlier ways of rationalizing extreme inequality (Calvinism, for example), but it is not without precedent.
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Another concept, closely related, is meritocracy, which is often imagined as a guarantor of social mobility but which, Piketty argues, serves mainly to make economic winners feel virtuous.
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Wall Street has for years prided itself on being a "meritocracy," arguing that its performance-based culture drives capital to the best trading ideas and the best deals.
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Although he wrote about how meritocracy is blind to inequalities of race and income, he had little to say about the relationship between anti-system anger and racism.
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Re-watching it now it's clear what the show is actually about: the idea that meritocracy is a sham, social institutions are corrupt and wage-labour is cruel.
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A lot of these folks—the specific thing they [allegedly] did, first of all, is realized their kids were not going to hack it in a competitive meritocracy.
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He believed that Silicon Valley was a meritocracy, and he thinks that as an outsider—a younger guy, an immigrant, educated on the East Coast—he was treated unfairly.
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I'll close with a somewhat ominous question: If we don't unravel the meritocracy, if society continues to hum along as it is, if the inequalities persist, what will happen?
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German firms certainly should not revert to a system in which age equates to rank, reckons Gerhard Rübling, labour director of TRUMPF, a midsized engineering outfit; meritocracy must prevail.
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Every single day we have to handle the jokes, the comments, even the decisions that sometimes are not taking based on meritocracy, but with a little bit of sexism.
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Young argued that the most significant fact of modern society is not the rise of democracy, or indeed capitalism, but the rise of the meritocracy, a term he invented.
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Where he once saw the Valley as a meritocracy he learned quickly that it was an idiocracy and that, true to Peter, everyone rose to their level of incompetence.
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Can you operate in an environment like that so that nothing is hidden, because, that way, you'll have a real idea meritocracy because you won't have an information imbalance?
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Natasha Warikoo is an associate professor of education at Harvard University and the author of The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities.
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"In a post-meritocracy world of Linux, you can expect a push to include more code for representation purposes, rather than code quality," Kern said in a Twitter thread.
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And internally, there's definitely some clashing that's happening where people, one side still is very adamant about tech being a meritocracy and 'We want diversity but where are they?
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If the sport's bosses were to redesign the organisation of European football from scratch, they might attempt to combine free-wheeling meritocracy with the financial stability of American sports.
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Supporters hark back to a supposed golden age of meritocracy in which grammar school boys were to be found at the head of business, the civil service and politics.
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What unites the haves and have-nots is a belief in meritocracy, the free market, and the potential for social mobility—the presumption that they're playing a fair game.
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In a brutal flourish of history's whip, the son of the man who coined the term "meritocracy" has been given a job for which he is not remotely qualified.
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If you're going to say that you're a meritocracy, then don't hire all of your buddies to launch a start-up who all happen to be young white men.
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" Mr. Dalio said in the statement that the firm recorded meetings with employees to allow them to "hear virtually all discussions" and to foster a "real idea of meritocracy.
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Trump represented a return to a not so friendly period of time when women were objects, minorities were second-class citizens, and diversity meant tokenism, not an actual meritocracy.
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"It undermines that meritocracy we're supposed to have in the military where we're evaluated based on what we bring to the table and not who we are," she said.
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But anyone who has followed the recent college admissions scandal might suspect that meritocracy is a farce, and that the wealthy have workarounds that we don't even know about.
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Michael Young, a British sociologist, coined the pejorative term "meritocracy" over a half-century ago to describe a future in which standardized intelligence tests would crown a new elite.
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Named Charlie Luther Mason — the "Luther," naturally, for Martin Luther King — he is by upbringing if not by temperament a believer in the amicable coexistence of meritocracy and diversity.
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Others, many of whom are in the process for applying to colleges right now, shared how the news has changed their views of the supposed meritocracy of college admissions.
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Scott P. GilbertAlbany To the Editor: Women are often confronted early with the choices and the unfairness of the supposed meritocracy: Do I step back to raise a family?
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She still seems to think that the new market economy — with its meritocracy and freedom of choice — will finally allow women to be masters of their minds and actions.
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This is the phenomenon that the man who coined the term "meritocracy," Michael Young, predicted back in 1958, and it has been tracked by a number of writers since.
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Mr. Di Maio had proposed Mr. Conte as a potential minister for "the Civil Service, de-bureaucratisation and meritocracy" during the campaign and has known him for five years.
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Members of dominant social groups tend to believe that society is a meritocracy; what we fail to see is that the playing field was never level to begin with.
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Often-cited examples of race-blind meritocracy are New York City's elite public schools, such as Stuyvesant High School, for which admission is based solely on a standardized test.
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Several AfDers I spoke to expressed pride that the Party now had a clever, starry member of the meritocracy who can take on the élites of the establishment parties.
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"We think of ourselves as a meritocracy in finance, but this begs some hard questions," said Katherine Collins, chief executive of Honeybee Capital, an independent research firm in Boston.
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I could provide many more examples, but one will suffice: Before concluding that America is a meritocracy, just look who's in the White House, and who's in the cabinet.
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In a country where corruption and lack of meritocracy has all but killed the hope of intra-generational mobility, citizens chose to escape from reality and find consolation in dreams.
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The tech industry loves to tout itself as a meritocracy, but its inequalities remain sharp: Not only are women vastly underrepresented, they are also highly likely to encounter sexual harassment.
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Goldthorpe is a staunch advocate of an education-based meritocracy: a system in which students' university and career prospects are based on their academic achievements relative to their social origins.
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In the absence of an effective intervention that could yield results quickly, it would be foolish to dismiss affirmative action because it runs counter to the idea of a meritocracy.
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What makes Markovits's book so interesting is that he doesn't just condemn meritocracy as unfair for non-elites; he argues that it's actually bad for the people benefiting from it.
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Creating a true meritocracy in higher education would require serious, politically daring changes to our housing policies and the tax code, neither of which seems likely in the current climate.
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The idea behind a compressed meritocracy is simple: to open meritocracy's gates to a broader portion of the population and, in doing so, make life within those gates more palatable.
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The great fallacy of sport, according to Rayvon Fouché, a professor at Purdue University and a former competitive cyclist, is that people treat it as "the last bastion of meritocracy".
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This amounts to recognising that although economists may like to believe that their profession is a meritocracy, in which the best rise to the top, the reality is much murkier.
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The goal is to have real idea meritocracy in which we're trying to have ... Our goals are to have meaningful work and meaningful relationships through radical truthfulness and radical transparency.
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Now, imagine that you can have a better idea meritocracy, you could have more buy-in, you could have better decision-making, you have that transparency, you can do that.
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The values that were hijacked — the First Amendment, due process, meritocracy, the financial and legal engineering — they need to be redirected to undo some of the damage that's been done.
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If the president could make his principles clear and known, and if you could have an idea meritocracy, principles that bind us together as a country, what are our principles?
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Americans may believe in equality and meritocracy, but if their obsession with the royal family is any guide, they yearn for a time when fulfillment wasn't quite so much work.
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Many of these institutions still have a "system of meritocracy [that] does not account for the declines in productivity and morale as a result of sexual harassment," the study stated.
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The British author Michael Young wrote in the introduction to the revised edition of his classic book The Rise of the Meritocracy about the pernicious social effects of standardized tests.
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Hardcore offers a brutally honest look at humanity's dark side, the myth of meritocracy, and the fallacies and concessions we make to keep up with the competition in modern life.
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At the same time, meritocracy privileges an arrogant, complacent and entrenched elite — largely white, increasingly Asian — with the money, resources and connections to jump to the head of the line.
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Meredith Whittaker: And I would say ... I mean, come on, it's a meritocracy, only the best rise to the top, and it just happens to be 79 percent white men.
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But in this land of ostensible meritocracy, pervasive biases steeped in prejudice and gender stereotypes make it difficult for women to reach the pinnacles of leadership in the United States.
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The debate roared back to life in 2012 after a conservative activist published a long essay about Harvard admissions called "The Myth of American Meritocracy," which attracted mainstream news coverage.
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The institute made a name for itself as a place where American values were defended, and where the virtues of democratic deliberation, meritocracy and leadership with moral purpose were championed.
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And that means we cannot dismiss the associated implications about the end of the meritocracy, and our own complicity — or what Ivan Bart, president of IMG Models, calls "obsession" — therein.
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In retrospect, the adherence to meritocracy should have been suspect at a prominent international company that was overwhelmingly white, male, and American, and had fewer than fifteen women in engineering.
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Peter has of course decided that he belongs at the top of that meritocracy ladder, a benevolent technocrat to analyse the country like the consultant mercenary he was trained as.
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The story deals with issues of aspiration, envy and the end of American meritocracy; it confronts the contradictions between democracy and capitalism, between liberal Western values and unchecked self-interest.
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I think reasonable people can disagree about this, it's not that I want demographically diverse, it's that I want there to be a meritocracy and it will be demographically diverse.
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When it comes to life's struggles, the perception that life is an objectively fair meritocracy can actually be deeply harmful for people whose circumstances disprove that in a number of ways.
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By allegedly paying to get their kids into schools they wouldn't have been admitted to on their own, parents accused in this scandal may have been perpetuating this myth of meritocracy.
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"One of the big problems with libertarianism is that it starts based on the belief that the world can be fair as a meritocracy and that's just not true," he said.
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Like many companies of its kind, Uber attracts the best and the brightest by pitching itself as a pure meritocracy, a place where best thinkers and hardest workers are richly rewarded.
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In the meritocracy your right to be heard is earned through long learning and quality insight; in identity politics your right to be heard is earned by your experience of discrimination.
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These affluent city dwellers and suburbanites believe firmly in meritocracy and individual opportunity, but shun the kind of social policies that once gave a real leg up to the working class.
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Sanders does not ask his supporters to place their trust in meritocracy, or capitalism, or even their own country, and this is part of what gives his movement its special intensity.
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" The president "is brilliant, wealthy, and speaks like a constitutional law professor … he conducts himself with a confidence that comes from knowing that the modern American meritocracy was built for him.
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Basketball's hyper-meritocracy is maybe already a little TOO fair, denying us the pure visceral thrill you get out of weird, bullshit journeymen winning the World Series MVP like, every year.
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Many viewers expected the show to be akin to a meritocracy, where true talent eventually wins out over all the other bullshit and drama you see on most other reality shows.
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It turns out that elites may have more liberal social views than the rest of the population, but the richer you are, the more economically conservative you are, meritocracy or no.
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Gross class privilege, the repression of meritocracy and the hypocrisy of supporting affirmative action are just a few of the concerns raised by Opinion readers since Tuesday's college admissions scandal broke.
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I can't help but wonder if I'm approached on the basis of fulfilling some undisclosed diversity quota, to be paranoid of institutional claims of meritocracy and, therefore, of my own merit.
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"The overall perception is that the company can finally free itself from state control and that it will adopt meritocracy and negotiate better terms with suppliers," Ferreira told Reuters on Tuesday.
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"I felt that the whole concept of meritocracy — which America likes to say it exercises all the time — I felt that principle was defeated a little in my mind," he said.
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THE MERITOCRACY TRAP How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the EliteBy Daniel Markovits For affluent, white-collar Americans, higher learning is something close to sacred.
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By allegedly paying to get their kids into schools they wouldn't have been admitted to on their own, parents accused in this scandal may have been perpetuating this myth of meritocracy.
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Nonetheless, Fisher perpetuated the myth of meritocracy that everyone with the same skills and experience should have the same access to opportunities regardless of their background, despite evidence that shows otherwise.
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To get there, the South Africa-born entrepreneur espouses Silicon Valley's meritocracy model, where enthusiastic, highly productive executives, managers, engineers and hourly workers are well paid and receive attractive benefits and perks.
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It also didn't help that the achievement of Asians are often used to "prove" that America isn't racist by top columnists; that it's still a meritocracy if you just work hard enough.
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Where you stand on this debate ultimately depends, like many fraught issues, not so much on facts but on ideas and ideology, and how you think about race, about fairness, about meritocracy.
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And it's no coincidence that, while they exist everywhere, these stories are coming out of precarious industries like media, TV, and film, where the very notion of a "meritocracy" has become laughable.
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Among other things, it takes in the Epistles of St Paul, medieval Arab philosophy, 18th-century English novels, Michael Young's book "The Rise of the Meritocracy" and Mr Appiah's upbringing in Ghana.
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We're also affirming the righteous reality of the Protestant sports ethic and American meritocracy: People fail because they're lazy, and they win because they just want it more than the next competitor.
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The way he chooses to use his influence suggests that he still believes that we live in a meritocracy, but one that works only for men who look just like Matt Damon.
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We were fed the myth of a Silicon Valley meritocracy, and the illusion that all you needed was ambition, determination, and a good idea to meet the right person and get funded.
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They told me I was smart and could be anything – an overreaching statement in a country that has proven to be a plutocracy rather than a meritocracy but one that I believed.
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Because when you go to radical transparency, then people get to see things for themselves, which is, if they don't, they can't be part of that idea meritocracy, because it's not transparent.
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"The idea of trying to alter a company's culture all by yourself is almost as stupid as the myth of meritocracy the tech industry is so in love with," Altheide told Gizmodo.
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Meritocracy — the tech-industry-beloved organizational ethos that assumes everyone, regardless of gender, race, or economic background, has an equal chance of success — was one of Uber's now-abandoned 14 core values.
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The only difference is that Republicans believe the meritocracy is more or less functioning, while Democrats believe that if we can just rid ourselves of the biases of racism, sexism, homophobia, etc.
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"Ah yes, of course, it's classic Republican 'bootstrap' meritocracy: where the smartest, hardest-working, most fitting person for the job just so happens to be your son-in-law," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.
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These recent controversies reminded me of the fuss around a book that came out a few years ago: Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy, by economist Robert Frank.
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It is a problem that touches on every sphere of culture, all the way down to the most basic values that we call American: meritocracy, money-spinning, male heroism, race-blind justice.
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Since early October, when the public cascade of sexual abuse allegations against the producer Harvey Weinstein began, a fresh awareness of rampant misogyny has stripped the veneer of meritocracy from the workplace.
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However, one of the lessons of the age of meritocracy is that building a more democratic and inclusive ruling class is harder than it looks, and even perhaps a contradiction in terms.
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In a meritocracy, the winners, the people who benefit from the system, tend to believe that their success is due entirely to brains and hard work, not to the accident of birth.
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For Markovits, both classes are the prisoners of meritocracy, just as Marx thought that both the capitalist and the worker he exploits were doing only what the system was making them do.
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He did it in two earlier books, "The Promised Land," his 1991 account of the great black migration, and "The Big Test," about the SAT and meritocracy, which was published in 1999.
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The show checks off "issues" like boxes on an interminable medical form: transracial adoption and rape culture, opioids and bad marriages, catty neighbors and the perils of meritocracy, bisexuality, and, fleetingly, prayer.
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Riffing on Michels's "iron law of oligarchy," which holds that all democratic institutions will end up being run by an internal elite, Hayes proposes what he calls the iron law of meritocracy.
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The cherry on top was my all-girls high school, where the fantasy of a genderless meritocracy seemed achievable in my lifetime, if only because there weren't any boys around to disprove it.
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Image via Bridgewater Associates By adhering to the twin pillars of radical transparency and radical truth-telling, Dalio believes that the idea meritocracy that powers Bridgewater can be replicated by the home-gamer.
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" For Anthony's part, he feels "it's weird that school should even be a meritocracy… we are handing out knowledge, so why should you have to be a certain social class to access it?
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For many, this is a triumph of meritocracy over privilege—a sign that the political establishment is becoming more inclusive and representative of the ethnic, religious and socioeconomic diversity of the wider population.
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Having an executive-level advocate — likely a CIO or VP of Engineering — who believes in a meritocracy across development, operations and testing and prioritizing agile development processes, is a key factor for success.
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That bitter reality has generated widespread skepticism of the fundamental premise of meritocracy: the belief that it is worth trying hard at something because hard work will meet material reward and social recognition.
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His love of "winners" and the "best" and "smartest" people, his plutocratic meritocracy, is the (neo)liberalism of knaves, willing to embrace inequality as long as the market shows that it is deserved.
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It enshrined sectarian identity as an unwritten basis of power-sharing — a Shiite prime minister, a Kurdish president and a Sunni speaker of Parliament — solidifying sectarian divisions and undermining meritocracy or electoral legitimacy.
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"The Rise of the Meritocracy", published in 1958, described a divided 21st-century Britain, run by an elite hardened to outsiders, with the party of the left becoming more technocratic than working class.
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For most of our lifetimes, elites of both parties have embraced this economic approach, tinkering around its margins and justifying it with well-worn conservative appeals to meritocracy or liberal ones to diversity.
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While the Chinese system is shown as a meritocracy in which leaders are trained and tested over decades, the presentation of the American electoral process mainly focuses on the need to raise money.
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The recent attempts to prevent any primary challenges by changing the party rules at the state level are troubling and antithetical to the Republican image as the party of free markets and meritocracy.
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The first fissure is between the "newocracy," America's new aristocracy that benefits from globalization, such as the multinational manager, the technologist, and the aspirational members of the meritocracy, versus the refugees from globalization.
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Much resentment focuses on the way in which the meritocracy is selected, through the education process, and on the winnowing effect of extensive standardized assessments that seek to measure and validate cognitive skills.
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Ms. Kabat's parents, Sandy and Robert Kabat, said they believed that pared-down architecture and objects could foster meritocracy and cooperation and "lead to a better world," she said in a recent interview.
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The losers in the meritocratic competition, the permanent outsiders, seize on ethnic nationalism to give themselves a sense of belonging, to explain their failures, to rally the masses and to upend the meritocracy.
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It was meant to bring meritocracy to the game: "If you can climb to the top, you'll unlock access to the Fortnite World Cup Online Open tournaments," Epic wrote in its announcement post.
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Not recognizing your blessings feeds into the dark side of capitalism and meritocracy: the notion that success is a choice, and that those who haven&apost achieved success are not unlucky, but unworthy.
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The message is clear: Meritocracy is more ideal than holistic review that includes race, and attacking affirmative action isn't racist if people who experience racism say they are harmed by the policy too.
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The ethos characterized as meritocracy, some said, is often wielded as a seemingly unassailable excuse for screening out promising minority job candidates who lack a name-brand alma mater or an illustrious mentor.
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So either you believe it is a meritocracy, in which case only white men have the ability to do this, or you acknowledge there is a bias problem that's really in this industry.
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R: Idea meritocracy -- that you always have the right -- anybody I'm working with always has the right to question anything, the right to the opinion, that you have to have an idea meritocratic relation.
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But the value of The Meritocracy Trap is not to give us a roadmap out of our current circumstances; it is to allow us to see our current situation for what it really is.
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Many of our employees say they wouldn't want to work anywhere else because they so appreciate our unique idea meritocracy in which meaningful work and meaningful relationships are pursued through radical truth and transparency.
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Some companies are quietly equitable, but at this point, we all know that tech "culture" is most often a byword for the type of workplace meritocracy that functions only because everyone looks the same.
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Labour is devoting its intellectual resources, in so far as it still has any, to the old problem of a closed establishment rather than the new problem of the marriage of meritocracy and plutocracy.
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For all its vaunted liberal ideals of tolerance and meritocracy, tech is big business and it will find a way to live and thrive inside a Trump regime and make all the necessary compromises.
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"We try to think of our society as a meritocracy, that we're not supposed to judge people on the basis of their gender, skin color, sexual orientation, the whole list of things," said Brummel.
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Some people like to go on about meritocracy but the reality is that there's a really homogenous group of people — basically middle-aged white men — who are hogging the positions we equate with talent.
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The reason meritocracy is such a toxic concept (and properly had its origins in satire) is because it locks-in biases by dismissing questions of how we even define merit, much less evaluate it.
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Even players who steer away from politics like Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers and Panthers quarterback Cam Newton have pointed out the league's failure to live up to its supposed commitment to meritocracy.
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This was the territory it had staked among the incubators of the meritocracy, the many schools in which a child could be educated in New York for the approximate sum of $50,000 a year.
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Throughout the book, he vacillates between the idea that meritocracy is a thin ideological veneer protecting a new aristocracy—and the idea that those who succeed at the race really are special, if overcompensated.
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Rather I think ideals of diversity and meritocracy are two different ways of shaping an elite, which can advance together but which are just as often separable, or even in tension with each other.
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If you believe in meritocracy, then you establish a set of meaningful rules: College admissions go to those with the highest test scores and the highest grades and that is how you define qualified.
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Instead of seeing the self as the seat of the soul, the meritocracy sees the self as a vessel of human capital, a series of talents to be cultivated and accomplishments to be celebrated.
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The only real difference was that republicans thought the American meritocracy was already perfect and Democrats believed it could be perfected if we just dealt with racism and sexism and other forms of bigotry.
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Scientists are some of the most dangerous people in the world because we have this illusion of objectivity; there is this illusion of meritocracy and there is this illusion of searching for objective truth.
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For anyone inclined to believe in American meritocracy, they offer a raunchy yet appealing vision of the world: So long as a woman has a thick skin and works hard, she'll be just fine.
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While the term "meritocracy" was first coined just over 60 years ago, it has become so deeply ingrained into our collective ethos that it is hard to imagine a just society organized any other way.
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At one point in their conversation, Klein asks whether there is some version of the meritocracy that Markovits would accept or if the very notion of merit-based competition needs to be thrown out altogether.
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But we should recognise that liberals will still be uncomfortable with the ideal of political meritocracy because it requires constraints on the right to form political parties that contest for political power at the top.
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Meritocracy is part of how the company presents itself, and I imagine that Exxon Mobil leaders are accustomed to paying close attention to the organization, how it functions, and requirements for human and material resources.
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The rapid ascent through the echelons of elite status providing reassurance that the American meritocracy is functioning just fine and is not in fact a rotten soulless fraud designed to rob the masses of dignity.
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Ross Brawn, now a managing director of Formula One after winning titles with several teams including his own, has said he wants to see a "proper meritocracy" with only the best 20 drivers on track.
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Bridgewater's founder, Ray Dalio, and the company are well known for a unique culture of "radical truth and radical transparency" whereby intellectual conflict is encouraged to promote a meritocracy of ideas, avoiding traditional office politics.
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But both she and Edwards agreed that one hasn't formed in the tech industry yet in part because its history is rooted in the meritocracy myth and a desire for constant innovation, not organized labor.
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Without adequate reward for all workers, Singer argued, meritocracy is not an ideal, because it leaves those who, for no fault of their own, cannot do the work that is well-rewarded, in undeserved hardship.
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In these misreadings, there was an assumption that to praise, in any way, the elite that predated the modern meritocracy is to reject racial diversity, minority and female advancement, in favor of permanent white rule.
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We are constantly arguing over the workings of American meritocracy, in schools and then colleges and then jobs: How do we get past the old networks of privilege and prejudice and accurately evaluate people's abilities?
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Climbing the Ladder In an otherwise characteristically astute piece about the meritocracy debate in higher education, Louis Menand offers an unconvincing defense of Ivy League universities, and of legacy admissions in particular ( Books , September 30th).
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Turns Out There's a Proper Way to Buy Your Kid a College Slot "Charges against parents accused of gaming the admissions process are a defense of the institutions' property, not of meritocracy," states this Editorial.
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The bottom line: Silicon Valley may have a reputation for meritocracy, but recent scrutiny of the big companies' significant pay gaps is a reminder that tech is not immune from management biases common in other industries.
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Within a year, with comedy videos bringing in eight-figure view counts, the company launched noncomedy sites, hoping that the Funny or Die formula—big names + good videos + crowdsourced meritocracy = gold—could work in other arenas.
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Forms of political participation such as sortition (using a lottery system to select leaders from a pool of candidates), consultation and deliberation, as well as elections at lower levels of government, are compatible with political meritocracy.
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The main difference is that there has been a serious effort to (re-)establish political meritocracy at higher levels of government by putting more emphasis on education, examinations and political experience at lower levels of government.
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We make these tapes available to employees because we believe strongly that in order to have a real idea meritocracy, people need to see and hear things for themselves rather than through the spin of others.
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"I'm very, very proud and very honored and grateful for what America has provided me, and I want to make sure we maintain that system that is a meritocracy, that allows anybody these opportunities," Lubetzky said.
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And Itamaraty, as the foreign ministry is known (from the palace in Rio de Janeiro it formerly occupied), came to be seen as the Rolls-Royce of Brazilian government, its prestige based on meritocracy and knowledge.
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Another company trying to do it differently is Trivago, the German hotel search site, which claims to be building the company to be a meritocracy where no single person has total power over another person's career.
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There's a brilliant, brilliant piece in the Atlantic, cover story a couple months ago, that the author talked about the 9.9 percent, not the 1003, as being the real ... and this notion of the inherited meritocracy.
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"The main problem is the eradication of meritocracy and the erosion of institutions... It will be crucial how and on which criteria they replace the purged personnel," said Ugur Gurses, a former central banker and columnist.
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"You can take it from job to job and we believe it will bring meritocracy to software developers, whether they live in or outside of Silicon Valley," Weiting Liu, Codementor's co-founder and chief executive officer.
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While Michelle Obama's occasional appearances in J. Crew sweaters and skirts appeared to affirm the company's position as the de facto clothier of the middle-aged meritocracy, millennial consumers were seeking more distinctiveness in their attire.
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Well, think about it, if you're coddled along, I mean, I think maybe Mark Zuckerberg and his peers really think it's a meritocracy out there, but it is not, obviously, as anyone with a vagina knows.
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But the "more meritocracy" world — the world where bipartisan criticism produces a Harvard class of 2032 with fewer legacies and non-Asian minorities and an average SAT of 1570 — could be worse than what we have.
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More than anything, Trump intuitively understood how polarization, and with it, the intense hatred among legions of Republican voters of liberal elites and of the so-called meritocracy could be a powerful tool to win elections.
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As Daniel Markovits notes in his powerful new book, "The Meritocracy Trap," between 22002 and 2006, the percentage of workers in the top quintile of earners who work more than 50 hours a week nearly doubled.
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"The Meritocracy Trap" is full of striking statistics illustrating just how dramatically the meritocratic elite is pulling ahead of the middle class by just about every measure, while the middle class sinks closer to the poor.
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Its financing, its management practices, its geography, and most of all its ideology of invention and meritocracy made it appear—to its promoters—the opposite of the slow-moving bureaucratic corporations of the Northeast and Midwest.
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While the Justice Department may claim to care about fairness in investigating the supposed anti-Asian discrimination of affirmative action programs, white people do not always appreciate the place of Asian Americans in their supposed meritocracy.
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The people who do well from meritocracy will invest the proceeds from their success in working the system to make sure that they and their kids have the resources they need to continue to do well.
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Once in a blue moon a mega star comes along in the UFC, but for the most part it was consistently great match making and a degree of meritocracy which got the company to where it is.
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Conventional opinion will be turned on its head, as liberals rediscover the virtues of a revising chamber of experienced public servants (the meritocracy incarnate!), while conservatives rant about doddery old fools frustrating the will of the people.
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Only recently, Variety reported that Aaron Sorkin, the creator of the iconic and liberal-leaning television series "The West Wing," asserted that Hollywood is a genuine meritocracy and that he was unaware of Hollywood's existing diversity problem.
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To some, the job market is a meritocracy, and each of us is personally responsible for finding a job; we can't blame outside factors for failure, whether it be our parents, the economy, or our graduate school.
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Bridgewater manages about $160 billion, according to its website, and is known for a unique culture of "radical truth and radical transparency" whereby intellectual conflict is encouraged to promote a meritocracy of ideas, avoiding traditional office politics.
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But the honor code has also been decimated by the culture of the modern meritocracy, which awards status to the individual who works with his mind, and devalues the class of people who work with their hands.
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At its root, it's a parable that cuts to the central dysfunctions in the American economic and political order, one that should dismantle our notions of meritocracy and put a strict limit on our forbearance for elites.
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Despite the wisdom of her description of bosses, Scott falls victim to Silicon Valley's myth of inevitable meritocracy in a way that limits her ability to solve any of the really pernicious problems that these companies face.
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Meritocracy is supposed to be the thing we have instead of class; you can hear it in the endless bipartisan odes to the ability to work hard and achieve anything—including, apparently, a liver transplant if necessary.
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Kaz comes from a class of exorcists that had been exiled from society until the demons showed up—now they make up the "magistocracy," a not-so-subtle dig at the self-satisfied winners of the meritocracy.
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It was around the time that the diversity numbers at big technology companies — long held as an island of meritocracy in a sea of industries that were rife with sexism, racism and nepotism — were generating more criticism.
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The American meritocracy ostensibly rewards intelligence and hard work, but it also seems to favor those who cozy up to power, who flatter their elders, who inflate their accomplishments, and who claim to represent what they aren't.
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After finishing the book, I wondered if, angry at the propagandist sham of American individualism and bootstraps meritocracy, I'd course-corrected a little too hard — giving up on trying to improve myself or the world around me.
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But I often wonder if we educators are doing a disservice — and perpetuating the lie of meritocracy — by continuing to tell kids that if they work hard and excel then they can get what they want in life.
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Besides having at least the aspiration for meritocracy, the new elite class is different in one other way from its high-society predecessor: It defines itself by how much it doesn't want to be like the old days.
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And perhaps most of all, while collecting degrees from Georgetown, Harvard, Oxford, Wellesley, the University of Chicago, and Yale, they came to believe in a so-called meritocracy as the preferred mechanism for allocating wealth, power, and privilege.
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General Richard Ravalomanana, secretary of state in charge of the Gendarmerie, told Reuters that the country still lacked a system of meritocracy and positions were given to those who know high-ranking people or those who have money.
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Robert H. Frank, the author of "Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy," and a professor of economics at Cornell, offers an incisive analysis of the debate in an interview with Sean Illing of Vox.
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Martin Murphy, lawyer for the defense, argued that Huffman had already been tried and found guilty in the court of meritocracy, and that she faced significant consequences because of her role in the scandal, including losing career opportunities.
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At this point we've had enough diagnoses how meritocracy reinforces itself, creates an elite detached from and even hostile towards the rest of society, and how it pervades society with a notion of merit that leaves many people behind.
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And each principle comes with its own sub-principles, making 20 in all, including such convoluted efforts as "we are field and client driven; we operate at the local level" and "we maintain an open, entrepreneurial meritocracy for all".
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But Mr Trong's abrupt removal of the offspring of the party elite from plum jobs can be seen as promoting pluralism and meritocracy in a country where nepotism is rife, says Bill Hayton of Chatham House, a think-tank.
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We know what works works, and at the end of the day, this type of approach, of being able to have that kind of triangulation at the best, and then that idea meritocracy is going to have a pull.
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Do you want to have a no-holds barred approach that leads to bullying, harassment and grossly inappropriate behaviors, or do you want to build a legitimate meritocracy where the best ideas and the most talented people are rewarded?
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In 1958, Michael Young published the satirical novel The Rise of the Meritocracy, set in a world where a system of personal merit has replaced the old-fashioned ruling gentry, only to harden into its own arbitrary social class.
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And there is no contradiction in thinking that meritocracy might solve its own problem, unlock its own trap, to recover its original democratic promise and refashion an open, fair society whose elite does well by promoting the public good.
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A forthcoming book, "The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite," written by Daniel Markovits, a law professor at Yale, is certain to add fuel to the debate among liberals.
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"The meritocracy is, 'I have studied, thus, I deserve to be where I am,' and so broadly speaking, that means the world is divided between those who know, who explain to those who do not know," Mr. Fourquet added.
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In recent years, particularly as public markets have deflated the valuations of tech companies that spent years being pumped full of private capital, it's become increasingly clear that modern capitalism is not always the meritocracy it's supposed to be.
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"Elite colleges have become a status symbol with the legitimacy of meritocracy attached to them, because getting in sanctifies you as meritorious," said Jerome Karabel, a sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and a historian of college admissions.
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Typical affirmative action discussions hinge on the issue of meritocracy — that what makes affirmative action fundamentally flawed is that people who are getting a "leg up" are seen as inherently undeserving compared to those people who have had advantages.
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"If I'm a successful CEO that came in from the system, it's hard for me to say that it doesn't work, that the company isn't a meritocracy," Ellen Pao, a leading voice on diversity issues in Silicon Valley, tells CNBC.
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Dalio now operates his hedge fund on the principal of an "idea meritocracy," a "decision-making system where the best ideas win out," the financier wrote on LinkedIn in 2017, to which he attributes, at least in part, Bridgewater's success.
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I think what we have to do — and this is deeply tied up with technology and with the VC world in particular — we have to once and for all take a deep hard look at the BS notion of meritocracy.
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He was no golden child of the literary nomenklatura, but rather a genuine product of communist meritocracy, born in Siberia in a family savaged by Stalinist purges, who scrabbled his way to stardom by penning verses for a sports newspaper.
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One of the many side effects of #MeToo has been to provide a reminder that Hollywood has never been a meritocracy, that it operates on favors and favoritism, lust and spite, just as much as it does ability and bankability.
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Benjamin Newman, a political scientist at the University of Connecticut and his colleagues looked at the results of surveys and found that rich people in America were more inclined to believe in meritocracy while poor people emphasised the role of luck.
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According to Kagan, who formally joined the team as cofounder and president earlier this year, the goal is to create a true meritocracy for all accomplishments or credentials that aren't online, as well as those that are currently self-reported.
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They have opinions that they're attached to, and that I learned over ... I learned through experiences, and I learned humility, the market teaches you humility, and I learned then that, how to go beyond that to create an idea of meritocracy.
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"[So] how can you espouse the idea of a musical meritocracy when the history of music, especially in the Western world, has been so segregated and so exploitative of people who originated so many of those musical forms?" he continues.
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Oh my God, a limited number of people have changed the world, but if you put together a team of great independent thinkers, and a great idea meritocracy, its evolution will mean that it will drive it in this direction.
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A discussion of the U.S. education system explains how local communities funded early schools, and how economic forces have since pulled many capable students and their families into self-perpetuating islands of privilege, creating what Rajan memorably calls a "hereditary meritocracy".
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In his book, Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School, an ethnography about the elite New England boarding school that he attended, Shamus Khan noted that St. Paul's framing itself as a meritocracy is a fallacy.
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"[I]f you believe that the best students in the United States do not come overwhelmingly from the already extremely rich—from families able to pay $40,000 a year for high school—then it is not a meritocracy," he observed.
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The primary culprit was a Republican Party that allowed itself to be hollowed out by rot, followed by any number of institutions: the press, the Democratic Party, the meritocracy, Wall Street, the education system, the Electoral College, you name it.
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But with YouTube making the entertainment a true meritocracy, one where only the strong survives, we knew we'd get lost in a sea of "comedians" or "sketch comedy performers," and decided we'd rather be the biggest fish in a small pond.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Bridgewater, the world's largest hedge fund, described its culture as a "real idea meritocracy" on Thursday and said it had made clients $1.3 billion so far this year in a rare public defense of its performance and operations.
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Like many leftists, he knows American meritocracy is a false promise—even today, only the lucky or the wealthy can rise to the top—but he also knows that the system that preceded it benefited him and people like him.
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The United States has nearly always had some form of tax on inheritances, in part to fund the government but mostly to stave off extreme differences between income levels, avoiding an aristocracy in favor of the ideal of a meritocracy.
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If the show has a message, it's this: High-stakes capitalism here isn't a meritocracy where the talented great men rise to the top, but a dog pile where fools are parted from their money by only slightly smarter fools.
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As the scandal broke, students at a school in Kansas City, Mo., who had been working for months to gain entrance into some of the same universities named in court documents called it a harsh lesson in the limits of meritocracy.
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We're starting to see pockets of innovation on this front, especially in tech, and I'm hopeful it will spill over into the education sector and make the US the meritocracy that we so desperately want (and need) it to be.
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Federal prosecutors presented themselves as champions of meritocracy on Tuesday as they announced the indictments of 33 affluent parents who they say sought to buy spots for their children at selective institutions, and of college employees accused of helping them.
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The meritocracy is here to stay, thank goodness, but we probably need a new ethos to reconfigure it — to redefine how people are seen, how applicants are selected, how social roles are understood and how we narrate a common national purpose.
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And if what we want is a political culture with a greater regard for the dignity of those disfavored by the meritocracy — men and women of all colors and creeds — the way to get it may involve more, and better, condescension.
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Clear communication is a critical component of Dalio's overarching framework for running Bridgewater Associates, which he says is an "idea meritocracy," or an organization where all opinions are heard and the best idea wins, no matter who it came from.
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If the educational system is reproducing existing class and status hierarchies—if most of the benefits are going to students who are privileged already—then either meritocracy isn't working properly or it wasn't the right approach in the first place.
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It's not hard to draw a straight line from internet culture warriors' misappropriation of free speech to our current mass delusions over climate change, the Hyde Amendment, abstinence-only education, health care as a luxury and class as a meritocracy.
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"The point of using TorrentStream in the real world is to save money on the server side, which means much cheaper servers than YouTube's, which would mean we would see a meritocracy form on the website," Kragujevic wrote me in an email.
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Where YA poster child The Hunger Games was about coercion and reality TV, The Thinning and 3% are both about meritocracy gone wrong, set in worlds where a single cutthroat test determines your place in society, or even your right to exist.
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So I think that the development of those people to have an idea meritocracy I think is an effective place, puts them on the field and then to help them in terms of their transition I think that's the most important thing.
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Instead, it affirms what we can call "political meritocracy": the idea that the political system should aim to select and promote public officials with above average ability and virtue by such means as examinations and performance evaluations at lower levels of government.
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For Lee, whose son, Lee Hsien Loong, is now prime minister, the answer to social cohesion lay in creating a culture of meritocracy, rather than adopting policies of positive discrimination to boost the chances of advancement for Singapore's Malay and Indian minorities.
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It has also fueled the rise of left-wing populist movements—including Greece's Syriza, Spain's Podemos and Italy's Five Star Movement—which propose that meritocracy was always a con, the system is rigged, and rewards should be shared more equally among the population.
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"It shows we don't only talk about multi-racialism, but we talk about it in the context of meritocracy or opportunities for everyone, and we actually practice it," Halimah told The Straits Times newspaper, before declaring her intention to contest the election.
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So Dalio built and implemented an "idea meritocracy" at Bridgewater, and his hedge fund has become both famous and infamous for it: famous because it has lead the company to legendary success; infamous because Dalio's style can be brutal to get used to.
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Such policies would form at least the beginning of an attack on the false god of "meritocracy" and the beginnings of a society in which being or not being a member of elite communities would not affect your life outcomes so grotesquely.
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Sorry, didn't get the latest memo after 1,21625 experienced + qualified journalists of all stripes were let go w/o warning a few weeks ago and still looking for work: are we still pretending that hires like these are evidence of a meritocracy?
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The authors lamented the emergence of a single-scaled hierarchy that esteemed a mediocre doctor more highly than a world-class welder; they lamented a rhetoric of meritocracy that left people thinking they had only themselves to blame if they were left behind.
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And because "contemporary liberalism is the ideology of imperial academia, funneled through media and nonprofits and governmental agencies but responsible ultimately only to itself," a story about a wizarding academy is the perfect fantasy story for the liberal meritocracy to tell about itself.
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Leadership was scrambling to tidy up after the discrimination scandal: installing a human-resources department; disabling the prompt "/metronome," which dropped an animated gif of a pendulous cock into the all-company chat room; rolling up the " In Meritocracy We Trust " flags.
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A revolt against meritocracy has been building in recent years, accompanied by a growing shelf of books from across the ideological spectrum decrying how a system intended to open up opportunity has instead created an entrenched, self-perpetuating, self-satisfied ruling class.
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Wealthy and successful Americans -- lawyers like Gordon Caplan, co-chair of the law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher, and Hollywood actors like Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman -- allegedly committed acts that spotlight how hollow the ideology of meritocracy in American higher education is.
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For Lasch, it's "The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy" (1995), a polemic against the professional upper class's withdrawal from the society it rules and a critique of the ways in which multiculturalism and meritocracy erode patriotism and democracy.
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I learned too late that college was never a meritocracy and that it was not a prize: It was an extension of the same uneven playing field that created a campus where very few of its students looked and lived as I did.
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This idea of (largely) East Asians as the "model minority" has long been wielded as a blunt rhetorical weapon, employed to prop up the idea we live in a color-blind meritocracy and to discount the realities of racist exclusion from the body politic.
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Unlike fascism or totalitarianism, political meritocracy is compatible with most democratic values and practices So the task in China is to bolster the meritocratic elements in the country's political system while selectively adopting democratic ideas and practices short of electoral democracy at the top.
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Small things, like the ending of a tradition where the best-performing student at schools gets to carry the Greek flag in parades on national days are a sign, they complain, that Syriza is opposed to meritocracy and still wedded to its far-left past.
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The conflict between the meritocracy and the masses also explains the most depressing fact about modern politics: why voting intentions over Brexit remain so fixed despite mounting evidence that the Brexit negotiations are a shambles and that leaving the European Union will damage the economy.
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Meritocrats"R"UsMy final reason for criticising the open-closed division is that there is a much better way to understand modern politics: that is through the prism of meritocracy, in particular the divide between those who pass exams and those who do not.
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So he's understandably mum with Bronn, who is himself a bit huffy that the rewards for his service have proved so meager (this is supposed to be a monarchy, not a meritocracy) and is summarily dispatched to divest the local farmers of their wheat.
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But even as they renounce the Trump administration's merit-based immigration talk, Lee and Durbin espouse the foundational mythology of U.S. meritocracy: that, with hard work and perseverance in service of self and country, one can earn and deserve a place in the United States.
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"There will be nowhere for the P.A.P. to hide from one of its greatest ever mistakes, of undermining democracy and meritocracy in such a foolish way," wrote Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh on his blog, Musings From Singapore, referring to the governing party by its initials.
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In Europe as in the United States, the center-left coalition has become a kind of patronage arrangement between the multicultural meritocracy and minority groups both new and old, while the white working class drifts rightward and votes for Brexit, Trump and now Le Pen.
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It should seem obvious that meritocracy — a system in which the most talented and capable, the best educated, those who score highest on the tests, are put in leading positions — is better than plutocracy, gerontocracy, aristocracy and, perhaps, even the rule of the majority, democracy.
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The Cinderella story in a society like ours might be made to emphasize, say, the ways that Cinderella is extraordinary even as nobody notices her, the better to prop up a myth of a meritocracy, something we believe in because we badly want it to be true.
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" He added, "With 82% of the industry being male, nearly 60% of the industry being white male, and 40% of the industry coming from just two academic institutions, it is no wonder that this industry feels so insular and less of meritocracy but more of a mirrortocracy.
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"I was talking with somebody earlier about how immigrants, particularly like I, appreciate what we have because we don't take it for granted — the entrepreneurial system, the meritocracy, the free market system, rule of law, press freedom," Lubetzky said at the Iconic conference in Boston on Thursday.
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"Ultimately, having a military that is a truly a meritocracy, that has the diversity that looks like America, that leverages all our strengths across the full range of human capital and people who are willing to serve, that's in our interest as a nation," she said.
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The Native American claim is the perfect vehicle for conservatives to undermine a female Ivory Tower academic who is a persistent and effective critic of crony capitalism, and to expose affirmative action as a liberal plot to discriminate against white men and eliminate meritocracy in America.
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The rub of it is that cultural institutions foster a supposed meritocracy of intellect, creativity and talent, but, curiously, men are still always at the very top of the game -- the film directors who win awards, the professors who get named chairs, the head curators, the publishers.
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"Sorry, didn't get the latest memo after 1,000 experienced and qualified journalists of all stripes were let go w/o warning a few weeks ago and still looking for work: are we still pretending that hires like these are evidence of a meritocracy?" she asked rhetorically.
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If we choose to believe that America is a meritocracy where each individual can pave his/her own destiny, then we ignore the long reach of anti-immigrant sentiments and the "-isms" (racism, classicism) that present a more substantial barrier to upward mobility than any border wall.
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"There were people who would say — older uncles and fathers who would say — 'Listen, in our society, yeah, the military might be authoritarian and hierarchical, but it's more of a meritocracy, there's more opportunity for people like us than practically any other area of American society,'" Prof.
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In my particular case the provocation was a column about the phenomenon of George H.W. Bush nostalgia, which I suggested reflected a general nostalgia for some of the aristocratic virtues of the old WASP establishment, and a disappointment with the meritocracy that has risen in its place.
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Casey Gerald, whose lyric memoir "There Will Be No Miracles Here" traces his journey from an underprivileged upbringing to the Ivy League, wrote about how people like him (and me, and many of my friends) who "made it" become human collateral in the myth of American meritocracy.
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My decades of experience in academia have made me think that while tenured professors often recognize the injustice of inequalities in the larger society, they consider academia a meritocracy in which they deserve higher status than adjuncts, whom they are apt to see as professional failures.
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On the one hand, upper-middle-class Americans believe they are operating in a meritocracy (a belief that allows them to feel entitled to their winnings); on the other hand, they constantly engage in antimeritocratic behavior in order to give their own children a leg up.
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For their part, the four female writers (especially the most targeted among them, Jane Becker and Jessica Gao) addressed the backlash in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter: "One thing that really pisses me off is when people talk about how hiring writers should be a meritocracy," Gao said.
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Unlike Western-style democrats who often argue (or assume) that electoral democracy should serve as the standard for selecting and promoting leaders regardless of the level of government and the history and culture of a country, Chinese meritocrats emphasise that political meritocracy is particular to the Chinese context.
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These programmers, many of whom don't contribute to the Linux kernel, see the new Code of Conduct as an attack on meritocracy—the belief that people should mainly be judged by their abilities rather than their beliefs—which is one of the core pillars of open source software development.
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When she demands an explanation from her boss, he says that the agency is a "meritocracy," that Ali doesn't "connect with men," and that she should "stay in her lane" and focus on representing women — which, of course, would mean she'll never rep anyone in the big three.
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On the other hand, the ongoing American Dream narrative, which used everyone from David Madson to Lee Miglin to Gianni Versace to imply that we live in a meritocracy and the only thing standing between Andrew and success was his allergy towards work, was the season's weakest note.
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Elizabeth Currid-Halkett's book recommendations: Just Kids by Patti Smith Art Worlds by Howard S. Becker The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt If you enjoyed this episode, you may also like: When meritocracy wins, everybody loses Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle What a smarter Trumpism would sound like
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It buys the corrupt certainty that every one of life's problems might be evaded through some special side door, and it does so at the expense of not just the poor but all of us, shattering even the thin illusion of meritocracy that still somehow seduces American politics.
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In this situation, which is ours, the meritocrats have no mandate and no sense of why the public hates them — believing, with Sikorski and the Macron apparatchik, that their governance was wise and just and there's nothing wrong with meritocracy that can't be fixed with more of it.
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No politician, however, sought to exploit the long dormant rage against India's self-perpetuating post-colonial rulers, or to channel the boiling frustration over blocked social mobility, until Mr. Modi emerged from political disgrace in the early 2010s with his rhetoric of meritocracy and lusty assaults on hereditary privilege.
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I am stealing this magic-and-meritocracy parallel from the pseudonymous blogger Spotted Toad, who wrote a fine post discussing how much the Potter novels and movies trade upon the powerful loyalty that their readers feel, or feel that they should feel, toward their teachers and their schools.
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Ragnar disappeared after his defeat by Rollo, which in a sense would not be unexpected in Viking society – it was a meritocracy, and a king or an earl who was failing, who'd been defeated or if his raids weren't succeeding, would be overthrown by the next strongest character.
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It is truly sad that these basic tips you no doubt learned in college are still useful, given the brain power we have in Silicon Valley and the meritocracy that tech purports to be, not to mention all the progress this country has made since the suffrage movement.
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He's trying to make his appeal to voters who, when they reflect on having risen above the poverty line during the years the Workers' Party was in power, they don't connect it to that policy paradigm, they connect it to their own individual discipline and efforts — it's more of a meritocracy.
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We're deeply in debt, working more hours and more jobs for less pay and less security, struggling to achieve the same standards of living as our parents, operating in psychological and physical precariousness, all while being told that if we just work harder, meritocracy will prevail, and we'll begin thriving.
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In Italy, where youth unemployment has been about 40 percent for three years and full-time staff jobs are nearly impossible to find, the exam sheds light on some of woes that have long afflicted the economy: widespread corruption, pervasive mafia influence, a lack of meritocracy and a rigid labor market.
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People come, about third of the population, it doesn't work out for them the first 18 months or so, and then you get to the point where ... but other people can't work anywhere else, because they love the idea meritocracy, they can't go back to the politics, and so on.
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He wants Restaurant Brands International to work as a meritocracy, and he wants to not only reward initiative with increased responsibilities, but ensure that his managers place employees in roles that allow them to best utilize their skills, and move them into a new job if the role doesn't take.
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So if his critics want to deny Brett Kavanaugh the highest office in our meritocracy on the grounds that he's in denial or dishonest about the person he was at 18 or 22 — well, I just hope that those critics will save some of that cup of condemnation for themselves.
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He also believes in its essential stability, because the nature of meritocracy itself ensures that the populists threatening revolt simply aren't as smart or as capable as the new elite that rules them: Behind the shift and turn of current politics is the underlying fact with which I opened my essay.
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The subversive ingenuity of the Kate Spade brand, with its cheerfulness and indulgent use of color, was that it rejected both the old hierarchies and entitlements and the newer tensions of the meritocracy in favor of an ethos that implied you were already someone — here and now just as you were.
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As in monumental sculpture itself, perspective is everything: the faultiness of what we call art history, with its false dream of meritocracy, reflects the limitations of the people who create it; it is, after all, not carved in stone but a living chronicle to be reinterpreted, blasphemized, blown up and rewritten.
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But if you get him to let you work in, even if he is mad, know you'll be taking an important step in normalizing the presence of strong people on the come-up, like yourself, and acclimatizing this kinda selfish person to the idea that squat racks are not a meritocracy.
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Amy Chua, author of the best-selling how-to-raise-an-uber-meritocrat memoir "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" (and whom Mr. Markovits credits with helping him write for a popular audience), said she loves "The Meritocracy Trap," even if she takes a more sanguine view of the system.
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I know how to create a diverse and inclusive environment, it's honestly through a meritocracy, but somehow it's become a weird word in Silicon Valley that I don't totally understand and I'm not sure I even want to, I just want to reclaim it but do it the right way.
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Within this story of meritocracy is the promise that anyone can achieve political power and success if they are good enough and if they work hard enough; that elected offices have for so long so wholly rested in male hands suggests simply that men have long been more worthy of them.
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I do think that your earlier thing, which is the fact that people who are building this, many of the people who argue that Silicon Valley is a pure meritocracy, haven't actually experienced, like myself, I haven't experienced the kind of things you can end up with in hate speech.
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The incident was a reminder that even the most critical commentary often focuses on the fact that our so-called meritocracy is not quite meritocratic enough; entrance into the ranks of the elite is still rigged in favor of the wealthy and privileged at the expense of the most intelligent and hardest working.
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Tech has always thought of itself as a new way of managing, and they do it by various ways, each of them has a different thing, but a lot of it has to do with the idea of meritocracy, the idea of transparent decision-making, and other things that you've talked about here.
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I think, by the way, a lot of tech people ... I get to speak to most of the people who are running most of the big tech companies, and I think there's a real appreciation for that issue of collective decision-making, of getting data on people and doing that idea meritocracy.
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In addition, if you take your criteria for decision-making and you write them in an algorithm, so that everybody can see, okay, not only does that make better decision-making, but it creates more of an idea meritocracy because they can see it and they can be part of building that.
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The entitlement premise upon which these wealthy parents and the Democratic candidates engage with the larger society is detrimental to those they purport to help, and it undermines the values and norms of human interchange that can be built only on the foundation of meritocracy and concern for the content of our character.
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Millennials were led to believe in meritocracy and forced into competition for their spots within it — only to have it all pulled out from under them by a disintegrating job market, a catastrophic debt load and a financial crisis that struck just as large numbers of them were entering the work force.
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His point here, expressed with maximal elitism and arrogance, is that meritocracy essentially co-opts the talented people who in a different world would be leaders in their local communities, their regions, their social classes, pulling them all up into a national elite and weakening every rival power center in the process.
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There were bylines in progressive magazines like In These Times and The Nation, stints subbing for Rachel Maddow and other future MSNBC colleagues, a well-received book about meritocracy in America, an energetic Twitter account, and, of course, "Up," where Mr. Hayes moderated brainy political debates for the network's weekend-morning audience.
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To the Editor: Re "The Moral Peril of Meritocracy," by David Brooks (Sunday Review, April 7): While "The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life," the title of Mr. Brooks's new book, is a compelling one, it is less than an ideal road map for achieving profound change and personal growth.
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Like millions of others, I'd spent my life under the sway of a certain strain of American meritocracy which preaches a relatively secular but nonetheless fantastical dogma: that people like me are gifted, talented winners who should devote most of our energy in life to achieving as much personal success as humanly possible.
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Letters To the Editor: Re "The Strange Failure of the Educated Elite" (column, May 29): It seems that David Brooks has found, in Steven Brill's new book on meritocracy, a new angle from which to view the roots of our country's myriad ills as primarily cultural and moral, instead of economic and political.
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If social media's biggest contribution to the industry has been to level the musical playing field, allowing artists without label backing to market their output themselves, then an app running promotional deals with the majors runs the risk of using the veil of digital meritocracy to mask a system that is innately rigged.
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Young used the term pejoratively on the grounds that meritocracy was dividing society into two polarised groups: exam-passers, who would become intolerably smug because they knew that they were the authors of their success, and exam-flunkers, who would become dangerously embittered because they had nobody to blame for their failure but themselves.
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Needless to say, this sets up academia to be the opposite of the meritocracy that it so often claims to be: it self-selects middle-class and wealthy candidates and eliminates those coming from poor or working-class backgrounds, which is disproportionately the case for people of color, who are perpetually underrepresented in academia.
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But Trump has clearly been a catalyst: The sense of moral crisis created by his ascent, the sense of moral outrage felt by women, especially, and the finger-pointing within a divided, freaked-out establishment has made it easier to acknowledge rot in meritocracy, and to purge the grossest examples from our entitled class.
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But along with the establishment failure in Vietnam, which hastened the collapse of the old elite's authority, there was also a loss of religious faith and cultural confidence, and a belief among the last generation of true WASPs that the emerging secular meritocracy would be morally and intellectually superior to their own style of elite.
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If you have several houses, an island, a ranch, a vegan pastry chef and a spot on top of the cliffs of the meritocracy, few people up there with you, as it turns out, will question that you are very good at what you do, even if they would be challenged to explain it.
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In particular, its favored model of marriage — as a capstone on a long period of professional development and sexual exploration, rather than a foundation for adulthood and a home for adult sexuality — was linked inextricably to the educated class's privilege and ambitious self-control and didn't work as well outside the precincts of the meritocracy.
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The assumption that the makeup of the coding work force reflects a pure meritocracy runs deep among many Silicon Valley men; for them, sociobiology offers a way to explain things, particularly for the type who prefers to believe that sexism in the workplace is not a big deal, or even doubts it really exists.
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But most importantly, they codify the aspirations and values of a particular community A widely adopted CoC is the Contributor Covenant, whose preamble notes: Meritocracy also naively assumes a level playing field … These factors and more make contributing to open source a daunting prospect for many people, especially women and other underrepresented people So far so good!
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This White House is such a pulsating example of unearned privilege (see here, here, here, here and here), that in a nation that prides itself on meritocracy and swears that those who work hard are rewarded, we see that it's also possible to be a rich dolt and still occupy one of the most powerful positions on earth.
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The first camp—the traditionalist camp, and the one with the support of management—would keep things as they are, with fighters acting like the independent contractors they are, earning the right to higher pay through winning fights in the cage and grabbing attention out of it: every man for himself, a true meritocracy, capitalism at its purest.
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Can you imagine some poor startup founder who's been running around so excited that they have one of these funds on their cap table and that's been their calling card, and now they try to do that and everybody's like ... If it's a meritocracy, sorry, guys, you proved your merit that you don't deserve to be here.
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The reasons for their reluctance may vary—fear of being labeled a racist, not wanting to be proven wrong should some team sign Kaepernick midway through the season when another player inevitably gets injured, wanting to perpetuate the fantasy of the NFL as meritocracy—but at the end of the day it's because it benefits them.
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The consensus both parties seem to have come to is that the goal of American society should be to form a more perfect meritocracy, that there is no higher goal than making sure that those who win the genetic lottery of skills currently prized by the market can ascend to their rightful slot and make their billions.
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It's that the eliter-than-elite kids themselves help create a provisional inside-the-Ivy hierarchy that lets all the other privileged kids, the ones who are merely upper-upper middle class, feel the spur of resentment and ambition that keeps us running, keeps us competing, keeps us sharp and awful in all the ways that meritocracy requires.
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She seemed like a lovely person, like so many of my pro-choice friends; indeed, people who believe firmly in an absolute or near-absolute right to an abortion are effectively my people in a certain tribal way, given that I'm a Connecticut Yankee raised by Bill Clinton-voting boomers and educated in the modern meritocracy.
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So if some of the elder Bush's mourners wish we still had a WASP establishment, their desire probably reflects a belated realization that certain of the old establishment's vices were inherent to any elite, that meritocracy creates its own forms of exclusion — and that the WASPs had virtues that their successors have failed to inherit or revive.
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Background Reading Ross on George H.W. Bush and missing the WASPs and on the problem with meritocracy Michelle on how Trump's potential crimes could make the 2020 election worse David on Republicans defying Trump I've been an Op-Ed columnist since 2009, and I write about politics, religion, pop culture, sociology and the places where they all intersect.
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Which makes the thrill of becoming a magical initiate in the Potterverse remarkably similar to the thrill of being chosen by the modern meritocracy, plucked from the ordinary ranks of life and ushered into gothic halls and exclusive classrooms, where you will be sorted — though not by a magic hat, admittedly — according to your talents and your just deserts.
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Since then, the torch has passed to a younger generation of writers, including MSNBC's Chris Hayes, whose 2012 "Twilight of the Elites" called for rethinking the entire ethos of liberal "meritocracy" — a system, he argued, that tends to fuel self-congratulation and incompetence at the top while offering little but contempt and dim prospects for those at the bottom.
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Their prescience seems destined to make them the CEOs, "thought leaders," and revered geniuses of tomorrow, but as the series progresses, it tells a different story: one where the shimmering meritocracy of Silicon Valley reveals itself to be a mirage, and no amount of beautiful ideas can shield them from the larger corporate forces that so often doom them to failure.
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Look, one way to think about this is that if you take a longer historical view, meritocracy in its deeper origins came to the English-speaking world around 1833, which is the date in which the administrative division of the British East India Company entrance and promotion based on social class was replaced with entrance and promotion based on competitive examinations.
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"If the NFL (as well as all professional sports leagues) is to remain a meritocracy, then principled and peaceful political protests — which the owners themselves made great theater imitating weeks ago — should not be punished and athletes should not be denied employment based on partisan political provocation by the Executive Branch of our government," said Mark Geragos, Kaepernick's attorney, in a statement.
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Still, the pretense that this is a world where just anybody can find just anybody else neatly aligns with our longstanding national narrative about meritocracy; only in this case, instead of self-made success, it's love that rises to the top in a glittering post-racial, post-#metoo world where we can transcend all kinds of social categorizations that have historically divided us.
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These "class traitors" reject the "lie of meritocracy," as Yahya Alazrak, a staff member of the organization, called it, adding that they are "fundamentally challenging this very core belief that our culture in the United States is built on, that people deserve all of the money that they have," whether it comes from their work or that of their family members.
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According to Nicholas Lemann's history of meritocracy, " The Big Test ," the man who suggested it was an African-American lawyer named Hobart Taylor, Jr. He was a Texan, and when John F. Kennedy was sworn in, in 1961, he dropped in on the inaugural ball for Texans in order to shake hands with the new Vice-President, Lyndon B. Johnson.
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When Marianne and Connell both win an academic scholarship that will pay for the rest of college and a master's, it leads to frank talk about their different class backgrounds, how Connell's mother cleaned Marianne's house, and how Marianne can say that she thinks "meritocracy is evil," while participating — along with an uncomfortable Connell — in high-level college events where her peers are serving her food.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Setting her sights on making Britain "the world's great meritocracy", Prime Minister Theresa May unveiled reforms to widen opportunity in schools on Friday in an appeal to "frustrated" Britons who voted to leave the EU. In her first major policy speech since becoming prime minister in July, May moved to tackle education, which has long divided Britain and often crushed politicians' attempts at reform.
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Because this seems to me to be the signal failing of modern education — visible among my own peers, now entering the time of life when suffering is more the weather than a lightning strike, but especially among the generation younger than us, who seem to be struggling with the contrast between what social media and meritocracy tell them they should feel and what they actually experience.
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It was in an earlier best-selling volume that Weatherford persuasively argued that the 25-year blitzkrieg mounted by Genghis and his cavalries — who, in "the most extensive war in world history" beginning in 1206, swept mercilessly and unstoppably over the Altai Mountains to their west and the Gobi Desert to their south — brought civilization, fairness, meritocracy and avuncular kindliness to legions of undeserving satrapies across Eurasia.
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The AMC drama, which came to a close last weekend, traces the modern computer age from the early 1980s to the dawn of the internet in the mid '90s, a time when the tech industry felt like a heady mix of meritocracy and magic: have the right idea at the right time, and you could remake the world, forever changing the way people talk, work, think, and live.
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That's not an unfamiliar point to political theorists; Michael Young's 1958 classic The Rise of the Meritocracy is a book-length critique of what he saw as an emerging elite of skill, and John Rawls's landmark work of political philosophy, A Theory of Justice, argues at length that a just society must offer a good dose of substantive equality and not just formal equality of opportunity for roughly the kinds of reasons Murray offers.
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Their argument boils down to the ideology of meritocracy, that as marginalized people we were able to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, study hard and gain entry, which of course ignores the centuries of redlining and institutional racism experienced by Black and brown communities and that many middle schools in Black and Latinx neighborhoods do not have advanced programs or educators who are equipped to prepare their students for the test.
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"If open source is truly based on a genuine and sincere meritocracy, where people rise to positions of influence and power based solely on their intellectual contributions, the only rational explanation for the dominance of cisgender straight-passing white men in our field is that these people somehow have constitutional or biological advantages that make them better coders than transgender and nonbinary people, white women, women of color, and men of color," Ehmke wrote in a recent blog post.
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