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Meritocracy IV: The corruption of the elite

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Our critical series on meritocracy now comes to a head. We have found that configuring society around an impoverished political philosophy which fails to live up to its name - meritocracy - has various deleterious effects, including the destruction of childhood and the impairment of family formation. Perhaps it is no surprise that it has corrupted our e…

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