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Agree to Disagree: Meritocracy

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The Third Problem With Meritocracy

In amaritocracy, your training more nearly enslaves you than frees you. And competition distorts what people value in a way that makes their activity less worth while. To win at the olympics, athletes have to drive themselves so hard that they break their bodies and are stuck in an obsession of performance. It focuses on competitive edge over what's worth doing,. Distorts all our ambitions and all our values in ways that harms us all. Those are the three reasons why i'm sceptic of maritocracy. Thanks very much.

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