THE PROBLEM OF MERITOCRACY by Eli Harman (profoundly important insight) Tolerati

THE PROBLEM OF MERITOCRACY

by Eli Harman (profoundly important insight)

Tolerating exceptions or outliers weakens resistance to the non-exceptions and non-outliers.

Meritocracy is unstable because it mandates giving opportunity and influence to the unmeritocratic if only they can demonstrate some merit.

This insures that less merit will be demanded, and supplied, in every subsequent iteration.