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The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite

Daniel Markovits

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The next decade belongs to those willing to earn it: https://t.co/GQ6UDPbIJg

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Grace is opposed to merit not effort - Dallas Willard

Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

Antonio Garcia Martinez • 1 highlight

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Against Meritocracy: Culture, power and myths of mobility

Jo Littler

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Zach Yadegari

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What I want to bring to the world in the next decade: - Competitor to the modern university - Kickstarter for ppl - P2P Credentials @Cosign - Idea Markets - Popularize NVC Common thread: I want to democratize how people learn, raise mon... See more

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The older I get the more I realize life is just a series of good karma points and people vouching for you. Hard skills are important in the beginning of your career, the further along you go, the more subjective opinions and cosigns matter. Meritocracy is a myth.

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It is a better world if our most prominent people are moral exemplars with happy family lives. However, after a decade of meeting billionaires, reading biographies of highly successful people, and building products myself, I’ve come to accept that the opposite is probably true. The highest level of success requires wholly unreasonable people. Musk ... See more