Rejecting meritocracy clashes with America’s basic
premises
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/06/rejecting-meritocracy-clashes-with-americas-basic-premises/
Attacking ‘merit’ in the name of ‘equity’ is a
prescription for mediocrity
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/25/attacking-merit-prescription-mediocrity/
George F. Will observes:
“A meritocratic society has less discord than a society that abandons meritocratic principles. Equity, pursued through government-driven allocation of social rewards, drenches society with bitter distributional conflicts because wealth and opportunity are allocated by political power according to shifting standards contested by competing factions. Allowing the market to articulate preferences, without seeking to decide — who will decide who the deciders are? — the preferences’ moral worth, promotes domestic tranquility”.
America’s Collapsing Meritocracy Is a Recipe for
Revolt
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/07/16/taiping-rebellion-addison-rae-meritocracy-exams-rebellion/
Equality and the elites
https://www.newstatesman.com/aristocracy-talent-meritocracy%20modern-world-adrian-wooldridge-review
Meritocracy, Not Democracy, Is the Golden Ticket to
Growth
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-05-16/china-knows-that-meritocracy-is-the-key-to-boosting-economic-growth
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/25/attacking-merit-prescription-mediocrity/
George F. Will observes:
“A meritocratic society has less discord than a society that abandons meritocratic principles. Equity, pursued through government-driven allocation of social rewards, drenches society with bitter distributional conflicts because wealth and opportunity are allocated by political power according to shifting standards contested by competing factions. Allowing the market to articulate preferences, without seeking to decide — who will decide who the deciders are? — the preferences’ moral worth, promotes domestic tranquility”.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/07/16/taiping-rebellion-addison-rae-meritocracy-exams-rebellion/
https://www.newstatesman.com/aristocracy-talent-meritocracy%20modern-world-adrian-wooldridge-review
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-05-16/china-knows-that-meritocracy-is-the-key-to-boosting-economic-growth
What if We’re the Bad Guys Here?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/opinion/trump-meritocracy-educated.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/opinion/trump-meritocracy-educated.html
David Brooks:
Only 0.8 percent of all college students graduate from the super elite 12 schools (the Ivy League colleges, plus Stanford, M.I.T., Duke and the University of Chicago). A 2018 study found that more than 50 percent of the staff writers at the beloved New York Times and The Wall Street Journal attended one of the 29 most elite universities in the nation.
Writing in Compact magazine, Michael Lind observes that the upper-middle-class job market looks like a candelabrum: “Those who manage to squeeze through the stem of a few prestigious colleges and universities in their youth can then branch out to fill leadership positions in almost every vocation.”
Or, as Markovits puts it, “Elite graduates monopolize the best jobs and at the same time invent new technologies that privilege superskilled workers, making the best jobs better and all other jobs worse.”
Only 0.8 percent of all college students graduate from the super elite 12 schools (the Ivy League colleges, plus Stanford, M.I.T., Duke and the University of Chicago). A 2018 study found that more than 50 percent of the staff writers at the beloved New York Times and The Wall Street Journal attended one of the 29 most elite universities in the nation.
Writing in Compact magazine, Michael Lind observes that the upper-middle-class job market looks like a candelabrum: “Those who manage to squeeze through the stem of a few prestigious colleges and universities in their youth can then branch out to fill leadership positions in almost every vocation.”
Or, as Markovits puts it, “Elite graduates monopolize the best jobs and at the same time invent new technologies that privilege superskilled workers, making the best jobs better and all other jobs worse.”
The Perils of Meritocracy
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-10-27/mervyn-king-on-the-perils-of-meritocracy
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-10-27/mervyn-king-on-the-perils-of-meritocracy