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The Meritocracy Machine

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (578+ words) The advocates of meritocracy also often appeal to free-market economics, which would shock most of their favorite economists. Adam Smith recognized that “honourable professions…are generally under-recompensed,” while Friedrich Hayek argued that material rewards do not generally “correspond to what…...