Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Competitive sprinting is a very open, very fair competitive playing field where a tiny minority of competitors who are legitimately very fast reap the vast majority of the prize and sponsorship money. The idea of “meritocracy” is that this is a bad model for society. — PolitiTweet.org

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“Meritocracy” was coined by socialist to describe, in a critical way, what he saw as an emerging postwar class structure that was neither aristrocratic nor egalitarian. — PolitiTweet.org

"Meritocracy" changed from "How do we ensure the best rise up?" to "How do we ensure ppl get an equal chance? Who d… https://t.co/n0V2FL2D57

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@MattZeitlin Yet Rawls gives fair equality of opportunity strict priority over the difference principal! — PolitiTweet.org

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