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Worth noting that the person who coined "Meritocracy" was doing so in the context of his book-length critique of it and caution against its adoption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy




I am aware of that and I was thinking whether I should use it. But the ideology of liberalism is partly based on that idea, that there is some objective performance evaluator (free market, natural selection), which will assign value by one's merit (because you can sort of observe that scoring process and act accordingly).




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