<
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/09/meritocracys-miserable-winners/594760/>
"Today’s meritocrats still claim to get ahead through talent and effort,
using means open to anyone. In practice, however, meritocracy now
excludes everyone outside of a narrow elite. Harvard, Princeton,
Stanford, and Yale collectively enroll more students from households in
the top 1 percent of the income distribution than from households in the
bottom 60 percent. Legacy preferences, nepotism, and outright fraud
continue to give rich applicants corrupt advantages. But the dominant
causes of this skew toward wealth can be traced to meritocracy."
Via Kenny Chaffin and Jennifer Freeman.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
