Merit

Miller and McNamee, incredible sociologists they are, offer much evidence to support their claim, not that meritocracy is a myth, but that meritocracy is based on inaccurate representations of what it is to be at the top and the bottom “of the system”

They offer a numbskull set of ideas could produce a truly meritocratic society:

“discrimination could be reduced or eliminated”

“the wealthy could be encouraged to redistribute greater amounts of their accumulated wealth”

“the tax system could be redesigned” 

“government resources could be allocated”

Doesn’t this sound familiar? But, there is a deeper concern to have here with respect to society and its development.  These four ideas are based in domains which already have been addressed over the past 80 years.  These domains exist in large part as those which determine the society we live in now, which suffers the meritocratic blues.  Blues, and distorted perceptions they are based on, that describe the ways in which we allow merit to grow by bashing people-groups and detrimentally exposing the underbelly of greed in society.  The weakest part of society is its underside, its bottom dwellers.  Those at the “bottom” (to use Miller and McNamee’s notion) are vulnerable to the belief in myths. These myths are based on ideas that feed the extremely elite class wealthy, M-----, S-----, S-----, P------, to name just a few. To tow the line here these individuals would need to hit the road, literally.  Meaning, they would have to get a punch in the wallet to the tune of making them homeless for all the times they cry justice and not give of their skin to those at the bottom. Live a day on the street, then enter your palace home before you criticize.  The blues these folk sing are to the tune of taking money to their banks. Entertainers and politicians and so-called philanthropists they are and they count their money gleaming in their eyes each day as SMI individuals walk the streets in their places.  The system that already uses the numbskull strategies mentioned above has failed. what next? 

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