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by bjornsing 1667 days ago
Meritocracy is definitely under attack. Another Netflix show with a similar message is “3%”.
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"What free trade did to blue collar jobs, remote work will do to white collar jobs." [1]

If Naval is right, then that will make America the same as the "Offshore" in "3%"...

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/naval/status/1463388121710481410

Meritocracy as we imagined it never worked. We just deluded ourselves into thinking we all have a chance, but we deeply know that's not true.
Plutocracy is under attack, not meritocracy.
> Meritocracy is definitely under attack.

Meritocracy is an attack on capitalism. Read the book.

Whenever someone tells me to read a book they refuse to summarise, I assume they've been the victim of a successful hypnotist.