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Episode 103: Michael Sandel - The Tyranny of Merit

The Political Theory Review

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Is There a Justification for Hard Work?

The appeal of maritocracy was captured by max teber, who saw it as an attempt by the successful to justify their success. But in a democratic society, thereis no clear justification for why i'm in the bottom - and this takes us to the dark side of maritocrats. Michael young foresaw this tendency of amaritocratic society to confer a sense of deservingness on the winners. And he predicted that there would be a populous revolt against martocratic elitz in the year two thousand 36 or somethinghe predicted, except that that revolt came two decades early.

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