(The beneficiaries of meritocracy will never willingly give up their presumed status, privilege, and wealth. They might decry inequality, perform rituals of philanthropy, and mouth the words of justice and equity. But they never doubt the fiction that meritocracy is moral.)
The meritocracy and the poverty of the liberal imagination in 21st century America
Paul Campos
@corlin Meritocracy is just another word for fantasy.