Selecting software with the right features is easier when you know what the most common features are and what they do. Most arguments about meritocracy are about how best to achieve it and to offer the same opportunity to all.įollowing are the key features of email verification software tools:>Įmail list categorization: Verifies your email lists to categorize addresses as valid or invalid. Almost none are about meritocracy itself-there is a cultural assumption that is the best and only way to organise society. Meritocracy makes us buy in to the 'self-made and self-sufficient' argument.

That is, we end up ignoring everything and everyone else that has helped us get to where we are. Parents, teachers, systems, institutions etc.

In a meritocratic system, the winners believe that they have earnt all that they have on their own, therefore they deserve it. Those that have not? That's their fault for not earning it. In short- everyone deserves what they get. 'In an unequal society, those who land on top want to believe their success is morally justified. In a meritocratic society, this means the winners must believe they have earned their success through their own talent and hard work.' The college admissions scandal is the perfect microcosmic symbol of the problems of merit, emblematic of a bigger problem that's harder to articulate. It all relates to the reasons behind who gets ahead, and why. Rather than donating huge sums to colleges to (legally) get in the back door, parents were paying to enter the (illegal) side door. While legality is one question and relatively clear cut, it does not square the moral problem. Namely, those that are more likely to get in simply have more money. They have paid for merit, because it is the thing most sought after. Trump by Way of Technocracyīrexit, Trump, soaring enthusiasm for nationalism - all are driven by the anger of the disenfranchised. They've become so disenfranchised by way of the political elites who have led us for the last fifty years. Sandel argues that this started with Reagan/Thatcher and was maintained by Clinton/Blair afterwards.

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