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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

When meritocracy wins, everybody loses

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Stratification of Economic Roles

The categories are faking away. Well, I don't think they're fake, but I think they're expressions of one phenomenon and it's the phenomenon we need to get a handle on. This is hard. And so I'm not going to be as crisp as I would like because it's really hard. You have to imagine a world that's deeply different from our world. But look, we could organize ourselves in our social life and in our production into roles. The roles could be very different and hierarchically organized. Or they could be really pretty similar to each other.

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