> Meritocracy is tyranny by another name. [You then go on to elaborate with historical examples of how merit != virtue.] As far as I can tell, the linked artic

> Meritocracy is tyranny by another name. [You then go on to elaborate with historical examples of how merit != virtue.] As far as I can tell, the linked article in fact makes exactly the same point: > They [the founders] also knew that merit was not enough; merit without virtue to accompany it could produce tyranny. They knew this, of course, through history.