Does anybody out there support Meritocracy?
A meritocracy tends to function upon, and promote, credibly recorded demonstrations of talent, and doing so hoping to promote talent itself. The flaw here is individuals may be talented, and yet lack any record of showing that talent. Examples might be anything from a talented writer who has never sought to publish a book, or a genuinely intelligent person who wasn’t graded well in school such as myself. I never finished high school yet qualified for Mensa. A meritocracy can actually suppress talented individuals who have not demonstrated their talent. In the chapter “Merit and Justice,” Amartya Sen complains about the lack of a precise definition of “merit” and it follows the effectiveness of meritocracy itself. Criticisms of meritocracy can be clearly seen in such examples as Singapore, or the Open Source Initiative: it is the “confounding merit of actions with that of persons or possibly of groups of people.” Both in the case of Singapore, and the Open Source Initiative, merit is gi
