Meritocracy Debate
Discussions revolve around the definition, existence, myths, and desirability of meritocracy, often referencing its satirical origins by Michael Young and critiques of its real-world implementations as elitocracy or corruption.
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"Meritocracy" as originally defined does not mean what you think it does
this is what they call meritocracy.
Relevant to b) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_meritocracy
The system is meritocratic, you just don't agree with its definition of merit.
But, it is supposed to be meritocracy. \snark
What problem exactly are you trying to solve? and is that problem caused by meritocracy or something else?
That's kind of implying a meritocracy actually exists.
It reinforces meritocracy. What’s the alternative?
There really is no meritocracy as such it is just the other name for elitocracy, you know the buddy society that favors corruption. In academia the merits are often not assigned objectively even in hard sciences, If you think that everything is based on merits, everything becomes a merit, knowing some famous professor becomes a merit regardless that is because your uncle is his friend. And don't get me started on the elitocracy in politics and other institutions.
meritocracy doesn't mean what you think it does.