#15 — Michael Sandel | The Tyranny of Merit
Within Reason
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The Moral Argument for Meritocracy
There is a further moral objection to meritocracy understood as the idea that those who make a lot of money morally deserve it. The argument about, well, John Rawls refers to the moral arbitrariness, the contingency of talents. Not only having this or that talent, but even more importantly, living in a society that happens to prize the talents that you or I happen to have. So that's a source of moral arbitrarier, moral contingency, that undercuts the meritocratic conviction That people who are free to exercise their efforts in talents without obstacle, morally deserve the material rewards that the market bestows on them.
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