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Ep. 254: Michael Sandel Interview: Against Meritocracy (Part One)

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The Misguided Faith in Meritocracy

In five, you have this critique of free market liberalism from Hayek and the Gulf for state liberalism from Rawls. One thing being that there's a set of rules that we can come up with that will lead to a just enough and a equitable enough society if we just follow them. And I seems to me that part of your criticism is that they're just wrong about that. They're justwrong about that's the way we work as individuals,. That's the way communities work politically. So I found it sort of distilled a nice language about talking about this.

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