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An interesting critique of the meritocracy/technocracy: The Rise of Meritocracy by Michael Young. Written in the 50s it's prescient to what has been happening

• jhbadger 6mo ago
  You can argue that a true meritocracy still wouldn't be ideal (as Young did), but that argument seems irrelevant -- the problem in the real world is that we pretend that we have a meritocracy, but often the person who gets the promotion or whatever isn't actually the best at their job, but is a cousin or fraternity brother of the person in charge -- the old "it isn't what you know, but who you know".
  • andrekandre 6mo ago
    > often the person who gets the promotion or whatever isn't actually the best at their job it would be interesting to experiment with how people get promoted in orgs... maybe vote by co-workers? or by team members?