Quotes About Meritocracy

My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period.

Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression.

Vietnamese probed him for anti-white and hence anti-American sentiments. He made it abundantly clear he came from a country that believed in meritocracy. White or black, work your ass off and you will profit.

Comedy is a meritocracy. If you are funny, you are there. If you are not, you are out.

The execs don't care what color you are. They care about how much money you make. Hollywood is not really black or white. It's green.

A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want.

For poor whites, some of the most pernicious, invidious, and damaging distinctions imposed by eugenicists were those that focused on intelligence and cognitive skills, areas of human ability that these professionals regarded as key to establishing and organizing a just and meritocratic democracy.

This is the life of the mind in the twilight of the meritocracy: cliquish, careerist, and militantly committed to the mere appearance of objectivity.

Capitalism is Crapitalism. It's a crap system for everyone other than the rich elite. But there is a cure – meritocracy. Meritocracy is about putting the world's smartest people in charge, those who follow Logos rather than Mythos. They will rule via reason and logic, not via violence, religious stories, or wealth. Humanity, at last, will be free.

The collective must respect the individual and the individual must respect the collective. It's a disaster if individuals have contempt for the collective (as in far right American anarcho-capitalist libertarianism), and it's a disaster if the collective has contempt for the individual (as in communism). Meritocracy is the system that reveres both the individual and the collective, bound together by rational laws, and dialectical improvement.

Meritocracy is all about positive liberty, about the endeavour to perfect humanity and create an earthly paradise. It's not afraid of legitimate authority – authority exercised in the interests of all. It's wholly opposed to privilege, excessive wealth, dynastic rule, inheritance and anyone seeking power in order to serve his own self-interest and particular will rather the interests of all and the General Will.

Meritocracy – going back to Plato's Guardians – is about centralised authority. Meritocracy asserts that humanity can advance rapidly only under the guidance of geniuses, the smartest people in the world.

Meritocracy is about recreating science's success in the political, social, economic and religious spheres. It's about rational thinking, evidence-based policies and continual experimentation. It's about deliberately creating institutions of thesis, antithesis and synthesis to provide an engine of progress that drives the world relentlessly forward to an omega point of perfection

The motto of Meritocracy is that of the Three Musketeers: All for one and one for all – the perfect synthesis of the individual and group. The group has your back, and you must do your best for yourself and the group.

Meritocracy is based on the absolute destruction of the rigged race of life, via the introduction of 100% inheritance tax, i.e. an overwhelming advantage can no longer be passed on by rich parents to their children. All children, no matter the wealth of their parents, must begin at the same starting line as everyone else. No parent can rig the race. The 1% can no longer dictate the outcome of the race

Meritocracy is about building heaven on earth, about transforming humans into Gods. If that's not your vision, meritocracy is certainly not for you.

Meritocracy is a sacred cause, not profane. It is numinous. Meritocracy is about the glory and highest aspirations of the human race, not about letting people run around doing their own thing regardless of everyone else, and fretting over which hamburger to choose. If that's all you want from life, you might as well go and live in the jungle.

Kapitalizmin en ba?ar?l? güven numaralar?ndan biri herkesin milyoner olabilece?i yan?lsamas?n? yayabilmesidir. Oysa zirvede sadece birkaç ki?iye yer vard?r ve zirvede yer alabilecek beceriye çok az ki?i sahiptir.

But a perfect meritocracy banishes all sense of gift or grace. It diminishes our capacity to see ourselves as sharing a common fate. It leaves little room for the solidarity that can arise when we reflect on the contingency of our talents and fortunes. This is what makes merit a kind of tyranny, or unjust rule.

The wealthy and powerful have rigged the system to perpetuate their privilege; the professional classes have figured out how to pass their advantages on to their children, converting the meritocracy into a hereditary aristocracy; colleges that claim to select students on merit give an edge to the sons and daughters of the wealthy and the well-connected. According to this complaint, meritocracy is a myth, a distant promise yet to be redeemed.14

then Rawls may have a point. Even effort can't be the basis of moral desert. The claim that people deserve the rewards that come from effort and hard work is questionable for a further reason: although proponents of meritocracy often invoke the virtues of effort, they don't really believe that effort alone should be the basis of income and wealth.

They resented meritocratic elites, experts, and professional classes, who had celebrated market-driven globalization, reaped the benefits, consigned working people to the discipline of foreign competition, and who seemed to identify more with global elites than with their fellow citizens.

The tyranny of merit arises from more than the rhetoric of rising. It consists in a cluster of attitudes and circumstances that, taken together, have made meritocracy toxic.

The most obvious reason for giving the best flutes to the best flute players is that doing so will produce the best music, making us listeners better off. But this is not Aristotle's reason. He thinks the best flutes should go to the best flute players because that's what flutes are for—to be played well.