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		ValleyOfTheMtns on Jan 29, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 64 and unemployed: One man's struggle to be taken ... Seems like that's conflating actual meritocracy with an exploited/fake form of meritocracy. Actual meritocracies are rare, but that doesn't mean we should redefine "meritocracy" to be the the distorted (and more common) version of it.

AstralStorm on Jan 29, 2019 | [–]

Please provide an example of an actual meritocracy so we can educate you that it does not exist.

snotrockets on Jan 31, 2019 | [–]

Just like every example of a communist regime wasn't true communist, and hence failed!

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