>Meritocracy is a myth. participants have too much variability on starting points and environment for the concept to have any usefulness. That makes no sense.

>Meritocracy is a myth. participants have too much variability on starting points and environment for the concept to have any usefulness. That makes no sense. Ranking people by their merit in some dimensions doesn't stop being useful even if their merit would be different if they had been born into different circumstances. I'm reminded of the saying "if things were different then things would be different." Well, things aren't different, and it's useful to use merit to judge who would be best to do a job.