On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 06:58:35PM +0100, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
>
> I completely get your point. I'd actually go one step further and state
> that 'meritocracy' is obviously bullshit because people are neither
> omniscient nor do they make objective desicisions. Further, large-scale
> attempts at making it work nevertheless conducted in the 20th century
> have failed spectacularly (that would be what people wrongly refer to as
> 'communism' or 'socialims')

Please distinguish between those that tried to make it work and those
that merely claimed to try to make it work to cover up what they were
really doing. My impression has always need that the former were
crushed by the latter.

-- hendrik