RE: Meritocracy
August 1, 2019 at 9:14 am
(This post was last modified: August 1, 2019 at 9:20 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I don’t think that altering the de facto metrics will do anything to address the issue. If we made environmental conscientiousness the metric, the 1percent wouldn’t suddenly stop amassing wealth and start amassing carbon credits.
They’d continue to amass wealth while laughing at the rubes, pretty much business as usual. Hell, they’d just buy the carbon credits while they were at it for the sweet cdg.
As distasteful as it may sound, the only practical recourse for distributing wealth or power more equitably or by some merit that doesn’t resolve down to a bank account, is to literally take those amassed piles of influence and ones and zeros.
Sucks, but that’s the bind we got ourselves into. Should have Strangled it in the crib, but we didn’t, and now we’ll have to slog through shit to fix the problem we created.
They’d continue to amass wealth while laughing at the rubes, pretty much business as usual. Hell, they’d just buy the carbon credits while they were at it for the sweet cdg.
As distasteful as it may sound, the only practical recourse for distributing wealth or power more equitably or by some merit that doesn’t resolve down to a bank account, is to literally take those amassed piles of influence and ones and zeros.
Sucks, but that’s the bind we got ourselves into. Should have Strangled it in the crib, but we didn’t, and now we’ll have to slog through shit to fix the problem we created.
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