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Joel Morris@gralefrit.bsky.social |
Reminder that meritocracy was invented (by Toby Young’s dad of all people) as a satirical idea for a dystopian book back in the 1950s, and shouldn’t be used as an actual way of justifying calcified privilege and inequality.
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Stephen Cox Author only more so
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Meritocracy is Toby Young believing he gets to pontificate because he is brilliant, whereas in fact he only got to Oxford because his dad pulled strings for him.
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Thomas Lumley
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It's a good book. More people should read it
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Joel Morris
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Actually, maybe I’m being unfair. Maybe the job is “difficult” because everyone you have to live with and hang out with has a soul like a torched hearse. Maybe that’s worth a few extra zeroes on the salary.
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Suw
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Like nostalgia, a word that was coined to describe extreme homesickness, and which was considered to be a debilitating and potentially fatal illness.
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