null"meritocracy is great in theory but in practice it results in bias" no. Wrong
people have intrinsic value unrelated to their Output Metrics
V is migrating to @@nova meritocracy is literally just a fancy word for eugenics.
People who can Do More Work get more resources and spread, and people who cannot Do Work at all get nothing and die. That's eugenics.
The fact that anyone thinks it could be a good thing no matter how you twist it is disgusting.
People who can Do More Work get more resources and spread, and people who cannot Do Work at all get nothing and die. That's eugenics.
The fact that anyone thinks it could be a good thing no matter how you twist it is disgusting.
@nova it's also got a really revolting word root because it implies that a human life only has merit via work, which, like, god fucking damn what the fuck
riotRhino@V @nova I can't second this enough. What qualifies as merritable? Who decides? What actions are taken based on those decisions? We are not headed in a good direction here.
I have enjoyed the utopia vision offered in Orville, and will always love a space opera, but when it was stated that Earth's future economy is a meritocracy I had to throw that out and pretend it is not part of the canon.
niplavWell, I would consider pure replicators propagating to not be *eu*genics, on the account that they are not very *good*¹.
🐚 Undo Influence 🐚"Let's make it the Olympics but for everyone all year and every year."
Me: "Or, y'know we could just not."
WingedAsarath 
@nova Meritocracy is fundamentally flawed because value is not quantifiable.