Comment Comment by dredmorbius "Meritocracy" itself is a fraught concept:Although the concept of meritocracy has existed for centuries, the term itself was coined in 1958 by the sociologist Michael Dunlop Young in his satirical essay The Rise of the Meritocracy.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy parent dredmorbius 7 years ago
Although the concept of meritocracy has existed for centuries, the term itself was coined in 1958 by the sociologist Michael Dunlop Young in his satirical essay The Rise of the Meritocracy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy