[xxSparkleSxx]

Which industries do you think are MORE meritocratic than tech?

Tech's not perfect, but I think they do it better than most (all?).

[gitlabuser]

Professional sports are much more meritocratic than the tech industry.

[seppin]

> Which industries do you think are MORE meritocratic than tech?

None of them are, but tech isn't any better.

[jonas21]

You're saying all industries are equally meritocratic? That seems hard to believe.

[seppin]

no, i'm saying none of them are particularly so, and none stands out as much more so than any other.

[vonmoltke]

Is it hard to believe that no industry is very meritocratic at all?

[stickfigure]

Sure - any industry that employs only True Scotsmen.

[owebmaster]

Sports? Music?

[yellowapple]

I'm not really sure if music is all that meritocratic. In some circles, sure, but the mainstream seems to be dominated by pretty faces propped up by major labels.

This does seem to be changing for the better thanks to the Internet, but there's still a very long way to go.

[owebmaster]

> I'm not really sure if music is all that meritocratic.

One thing for sure is that no industry in the world is all that meritocratic. But Music and Sports (even with the mainstream whitewash) for sure has a better social and racial distribution than any other industry I can think of.