Mar-Cracy Is Not a Way to Equality

The idea that this is a choice, and it's a matter of the effort and success and achievements of the particularly successful isn't up to us. Affluent parents have figured out how to pass their privileges on to their kid by equipping them to compete successfully. And living in a society that prizes those talents and gifts is not the doing of the winners, of the successful. You can see this, take a sports example. Lebron james is a great basketball player, and he expended enormous effort, training, hard work, in cultivating his talents. So there's no doubt that we don't live up to the meritocratic ideals we profess. Equality of opportunity is an important principle