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How would "meritocracy" solve any problems of race or class representation when the fact that higher socioeconomic class provides access to higher quality education, better nutrition (nutrition has a huge effect on academic performance), more involved parenting etc. means that in many cases the more privileged are objectively better candidates than the underprivileged. If we instituted a perfect blind meritocratic system today you'd end up with a lot of the same people on top. e: Expounding because I'm concerned somebody might read an unspoken "...and rightly so" into this post that I didn't intend. The idea is that you can't just enforce merit-based hiring practices and call the problem fixed when there are a thousand different ways for low socioeconomic status, particularly during childhood, to produce a person of objectively lower "merit". Torka fucked around with this message at 06:35 on Apr 20, 2014 |
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