Both of you sound silly. There is no meritocracy nor equality. People get what they get because they have something that somebody else wants: knowledge, skills, connections, whatever. How did they get it? I don’t know. Maybe by hard work, maybe by ingenuity, maybe by risk, maybe by birth, maybe by luck, maybe by theft, maybe by deceit. None of those things are or can be or ever will be equally-distributed.
I personally think that a society that encourages the first two tends to work out better than some of the others, but still probably unrealistic.
I personally think that a society that encourages the first two tends to work out better than some of the others, but still probably unrealistic.