(July 29, 2019 at 4:36 pm)Dr H Wrote:(July 29, 2019 at 2:36 pm)tackattack Wrote: Is your/our/a society equal or egalitarian enough, fundamentally, to be an effective meritocracy? Meritocracy can mean treating people with fundamentally unequal backgrounds as superficially the same which ignores and even conceals the real advantages and disadvantages that are unevenly distributed to different segments of an inherently unequal society. What would it take to make your society more meritorious in it's reward system. At what threshold of egalitarianism could a move from elitism of person to meritorious structure be a better step? Would it be a better step? Just open for thoughts and discussions.
In the US, at least, I'm pretty sure Donald Trump's residency in the Oval Office is proof that we've achieved a mediocracy here.
If the mediocre is defined to be that portion of the bottom 35% which aspires to be ruled by the bottom 0.000035%.
