This is the definition I am using:

a system, organization, or society in which people are chosen and moved into positions of success, power, and influence on the basis of their demonstrated abilities and merit.

  • @[email protected]
    16•10 months ago

    SO LONG AS IT IS ACTUAL MERITOCRACY,

    and not just privilege’s gaslighting about it ( via making-certain that the poorest have inferior-nutrition, inferior-air-quality, worse-pollution, inferior-education, inferior-healthcare, etc ),

    then yes, I hold it is The Proper Way.

    However, it REQUIRES a truly-level playing-field, and not a 2-tiered “level” playing-field.

    The Scandinavian system of ONLY public-schooling, so there is only 1 tier of education-quality, is a required component.

    Student nutrition needs to be guaranteed.

    Healthcare needs to work properly, for all.

    Livingwage needs to be for all full-time work, and companies that try to hire only part-time for the real-work, have to have the profit-benefit of such hamstringing-of-many-lives cut from them all, permanently.

    Fairness requries careful systematic, & openly-honest enforcement, because the DarkHexad: narcissism/machiavellianism/sociopathy-psychopathy/nihilism/sadism/systemic-dishonesty ALWAYS seeks to enforce abusive-exploitation, and it is underhandedly aggressive, and natural in our human nature.

    Not mitigating it == accommodating it.

    Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen, eh?

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