Comment by mystraline

8 hours ago

The problem with meritocracy: who decides what "merit" is?

The answer is: those who are already in power.

Stop the relativism. In a democracy it's mostly all of us that have a say, in a dictatorship it's one guy and his fascist rank's whim.

  • >it's mostly all of us that have a say

    Do you?

    • I mean, literally so in a democracy, no? You could argue 'we' (whoever that is) do not live in a democracy, but to say that a plurality of voices do not matter in a democracy seems wrong at face-value.