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Meritocracy - Coggle Diagram
Meritocracy
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conflicts
Libertarianism
For libertarians, business owners are free to hire whomever they want. A meritocratic government may enforce an alignment between contribution and compensation. But that requires government interventions into market exchanges which are unacceptable to the libertarian.
Democracy
Democracy effectively harnesses diversity within contemporary electorates, and thereby does better, epistemically, than meritocracy does.
Education
a lack of social mobility poses a threat to the sustainability of liberal democracies and, in common with many others, believe the solution lies in improving our education systems.
the ideal schools are those that manage to eliminate the attainment gap between the children of the rich and the poor
allocating wealth and prestige in a way that appears to be fair; and (b) creating opportunities for those born on the wrong side of the tracks, so if you start with very little that doesn’t mean you’ll end up with very little, or that your children will
the correlation between IQ and educational outcomes is weaker for children from disadvantaged backgrounds than for their peers, with environmental factors playing a bigger part.
In a meritocracy, there will always be some association between class origins and destinations because talented people filling the top positions will tend to have above-average ability children who can also compete for these positions.
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the wealthy use their privilege to monopolise the most prestigious schools and universities, and gain the qualifications that act as a ticket to success.