“Although widely held, the belief that merit rather than luck determines success or failure in the world is demonstrably false. This is not least because merit itself is, in large part, the result of luck. Talent and the capacity for determined effort, sometimes called ‘grit’, depend a great deal on one’s genetic endowments and upbringing.”
IOW, skill and hard work do pay off.
Meritocracy means you get to keep the fruits of your labor. What they are proposing is that you work hard, earn money, and it’s taken and given to lazy indolent whining slobs who hate you.
“Talent and the capacity for determined effort, sometimes called ‘grit’, depend a great deal on one’s genetic endowments and upbringing.”
That is true. So you can blame God for making some of us smarter and some dumber. Yes, the world is “unfair” if by unfair you mean un-equal.
What this Princeton IYI (intellectual yet idiot) fails to realize is that most of the wealth of this world is generated by these gifted people and the generation and ownership of that wealth is what motivates their activities.
If you take that motivation away their wealth creation will mostly disappear.
He thinks he can make Marx dictum “From each according to their abilities an to each according to their needs”, work.
That worked very well in the USSR, didn’t it?
And the only reason China is doing so well economically nowadays is because they abandoned that idiocy.
These equality of results munger are the scourge of humanity, and they should be eradicated.
You can create equality of outcomes, but, like trying to get a dog and a cat to mate, the forces of the universe are against it.
Because there’s an IQ regression to the mean - the system we have now: sons and daughters of elites who made it on merit... we have the stupid of the country running the country and University systems.
And once the sports leagues abandon meritocracy, implement that in movies & television, and university professors.
Rejection of meritocracy is demonstrable racism. If meritocracy = white supremacism, the person who thinks that thinks that whites have the greatest merit.
One day these SJWs will be hunted in the streets like rats.
Luck as a thing is nonsense, it is defined as a low probability outcome...if you do not prepare and develop the skills, success (however you define it) it unlikely.
There are clear undertones of supremacy and elitism...heredity determines your potential? So if you are from a family without success you should not expect to gain any yourself because we all know poor people have bad genes??? It is so confusing to know when its ok to be woke.
So utterly stupid and obnoxious.
Bttt
“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as “bad luck.”
― Robert Heinlein
Although widely held, the belief that merit rather than luck determines success or failure in the world is demonstrably false. This is not least because merit itself is, in large part, the result of luck. Talent and the capacity for determined effort, sometimes called ‘grit’, depend a great deal on one’s genetic endowments and upbringing.
Article is a good example of Critical Theory. Here’s how it works. The author cites studies showing other factors (such as luck) can influence success in certain events. He then extrapolates because every success isn’t necessarily 100% purely by merit, the entire system (of merit) is therefore false and by extension results in inequity which needs to be equalized (by outcome). Like every critical theorist, he offers the criticism, but no solution to his perceived problem. But his solution (eliminating merit) can only be achieved by force - picking and choosing who “deserves” something which inevitably results in gross discrimination (based on race, gender, etc).
I’m amazed they teach against meritocracy, yet they won’t let go of evolution, which is nothing more than biological meritocracy.
Not this “S” again...
This is from the Marxist university that spawned and venerated Woodrow Wilson, the racist progressive hero who is probably the worst person ever to occupy the White House.
The assumption is that it is one or the other, luck or merit.
Wrong.
Usually it takes a bit of both.
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.
Lies
All lies