• Susaga@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Okay, you definitely didn’t read my comment if that’s what you think it was. Let me sum it up for you:

    • A person’s merit is subjective.
    • Judging merit based on subjective values will bring in biases and corruption.
    • Judging merit based on objective values is impossible, and will need to be a simplification.
    • In either case, people will game the system to raise their value, regardless of whether they actually contribute anything of merit.
    • Any system will become outdated VERY quickly, as society is always changing.
    • Capitalism only judges the acquisition of capital, which is not a merit.
    • A person can cheat literally any system if they try hard enough.

    I explained all of that without a single anecdote.

      • Susaga@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        4 days ago

        I don’t think I said “nothing can be done”. I just said meritocracy is impossible. And since it’s impossible, we need a different system we can actually achieve. It won’t be without flaws, but we can still aim to have LESS flaws than currently.

        You don’t improve by pretending nothing’s wrong.

    • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      From which semi-tautological contortions we can conclude that, uh, capitalism probably isn’t the problem, after all.

      • Susaga@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        4 days ago

        First, my conclusion is that meritocracy is impossible. Your conclusion was something you came up with on your own.

        Second, capitalism isn’t the ONLY problem. It’s still a problem. Greed will corrupt any system, but capitalism is a system that openly rewards this corruption.