The myth of meritocracy: who really gets what they deserve?

The conflict is simple: parents are stimulated to give the best upbringing possible to children - the prize is standing out the crowd - but at the same time it does not make much sense to be #1 in a wasteland.

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Post by DrJaws » Fri, Oct 19, 2018, 10:51 AM UTC

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Please, go back to reddit with those insightful comments.

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Post by mkingston » Fri, Oct 19, 2018, 11:04 AM UTC

“What then! Do you think the old practice, that ‘they should take who have the power, and they should keep who can,’ is less iniquitous, when the power has become power of brains instead of fist?” - John Ruskin

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Post by Bantros » Fri, Oct 19, 2018, 11:13 AM UTC

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He's right though. Articles such as this one always push some form of forced equality under the guise of moral decency because the current system is so broken it's impossible to continue(!) Emotional blackmail to manipulate the ignorant or uninformed to their utopian worldview that's jjjust out of reach.

Check the authors previous articles, all of them extremely progressive passed off as though the ideas are somehow a majority opinion. They aren't. it is deliberate and calculated demoralisation and The Guardian is one of the best at peddling it

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Post by finnthehuman » Fri, Oct 19, 2018, 11:18 AM UTC

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>I know HN is full of dismissive "techbros" that counter the now mainstream counterculture of actually being fuckin aware of your biases, but I'm still trying to figure out why.

So that's what techbro means? Someone who disagrees with the popular narrative surrounding what parts of (or to what extents) the status quo is or isn't attributable to bias?