A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you

Princeton University ^ | June 22, 2020 | Clifton Mark

[TBP]

They do boil over the fact that one person born in The U.S. to a wealthy family is much more “lucky” than someone born in another country to a poor family.

In some ways, a person born in The U.S. to a poor family is much more “lucky” than someone born in another country to a wealthy family.

Our poor people have more "stuff" and more living space than the middle class of Europe (on average and in general.) Yet the elites in our country train our poor to believe they're victims.

And they are, to a degree -- victims of the very elites who oppress them by pretending to care for them.

[TBP]

Gratitude itself increases generosity — and opens the space to receive more.

[TBP]

Rejection of meritocracy is demonstrable racism. If meritocracy = white supremacism, the person who thinks that thinks that whites have the greatest merit.

Post of the day!

[TBP]

Heinlein nails it.

[Hildy]

[TBP]

The first generation accumulates.
The second generation consolidates.
The third generation dissipates.

[PeterPrinciple]

The assumption is that it is one or the other, luck or merit.

Wrong.

Usually it takes a bit of both.

[reg45]

PARC XEROX didn’t understand the value of the GUI. They wrote it off as a novelty.

[right way right]

Golly, Wow, white people are just so darn lucky snot fair to the rest.
Princeton should lower their tuition too, to make it fair for all.
In fact they should not charge anything because, in actuality they’re not worth anything.

[Reily]

Yes that was what I was later told !

[reg45]

China has a history of rewarding merit that goes back thousands of years.

[Nifster]

Lies

All lies

[daniel1212]

" Okay, the next time a Princeton prof need brain surgery, they can get the last in the class to do it, it’s all the same right?............... "

Indeed, and midgets should be able to play in the NBA. No, meritocracy is not perfect since there are different levels of grace (DNA, environment, accidents, etc.) that factor in, but it is the best system considering the alternatives - and the author offers none that I saw, but liberals want to be the one;s who determine who gets what), esp. when it is understood that those who were given more grace should voluntarily help those who try but are truly disadvantaged.

[Pining_4_TX]

Here’s another old saying...

If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride. :-)

[Silentgypsy]

Best concept so far. (Force them to live up to their own standards.)

[nicollo]

This one is another “classic” out of Princeton in the last few days... what a disaster —

— you’d have thought that Woodrow Wilson was the worst it’d ever have come up with, but no, here we go from Princeton that the “Classics” exclude Latin and Greek and now that talent is racist.

What a sweet pudding is that little orange and black tiger.

[gspurlock]

Thanks!

[Dead Corpse]

It won’t. We’re already in free fall.

[TBP]

Force them to live up to their own standards.

One of Alinsky's rules.