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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 27 2012 @ 06:02 PM EDT |
I too believe a meritocracy is possible, but as the article says,
> [it] probably cannot exist in a free market...
The existence of a market where merit is bought and sold, and
thus valued against beans and gold, is the distortion which
inhibits the creation of the meritocracy.
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| Authored by: Wol on Thursday, September 27 2012 @ 06:11 PM EDT |
But it is a meritocracy!
If hard work trumps ability for results, then it is a meritocracy to reward the
hard worker. Thing is, the hard worker needs to have some ability to start with
- I only have to compare me and my brother with my two daughters. I'm the
brighter of me and my brother, I strongly suspect, but he's bright and hard
working and has done rather better for himself. I didn't have to work hard (or
at all, almost) at school, and I've paid heavily for that in later life.
While my two daughters, the eldest is bright and has done well for herself. The
younger? Well, "Dippy D..." is quite a good description. She's done
pretty well for herself too, but hard work hasn't made up for lack of ability.
Cheers,
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| Authored by: betajet on Thursday, September 27 2012 @ 07:29 PM EDT |
IMO, there cannot be meritocracy because of the Law of Large
Organizations:
In any large organization, Loyalty will always be
rewarded over Competence.
One way the Law works is when managers
fear that competent people reporting to them are after the managers' jobs. So
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 28 2012 @ 02:37 AM EDT |
lemma: An hierarchical organization can not be a meritocracy.
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