Kevin Carson on Nostr: Aside from everything else, meritocracy is bullshit because it presupposes that the ...

Aside from everything else, meritocracy is bullshit because it presupposes that the dominant institutional framework and its standards of "merit" are legitimate.
In fact, people are graded on "merit" according to their effectiveness in serving a system of power whose primary purpose is wealth extraction.
https://www.amazon.com/Schooling-Capitalist-America-Educational-Contradictions/dp/0465097189