[ValleyOfTheMtns]

Seems like that's conflating actual meritocracy with an exploited/fake form of meritocracy.

Actual meritocracies are rare, but that doesn't mean we should redefine "meritocracy" to be the the distorted (and more common) version of it.

[AstralStorm]

Please provide an example of an actual meritocracy so we can educate you that it does not exist.

[snotrockets]

Just like every example of a communist regime wasn't true communist, and hence failed!