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Συντάκτης: Rainer Weikusat
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Προς: dng
Αντικείμενο: Re: [DNG] OT: sociopolitical systems
Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> writes:

> 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.


Anyone who could do this would need to be the ultimate arbiter of merit
himself. And I'm convinced that this is impossible.