Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 06:58:35PM +0100, Rainer Weikusat wrote: >> >> I completely get your point. I'd actually go one step further and state >> that 'meritocracy' is obviously bullshit because people are neither >> omniscient nor do they make objective desicisions. Further, large-scale >> attempts at making it work nevertheless conducted in the 20th century >> have failed spectacularly (that would be what people wrongly refer to as >> 'communism' or 'socialims') > > Please distinguish between those that tried to make it work and those > that merely claimed to try to make it work to cover up what they were > really doing. My impression has always need that the former were > crushed by the latter.
Anyone who could do this would need to be the ultimate arbiter of merit himself. And I'm convinced that this is impossible. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
