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by 6502nerdface 1002 days ago
> Meritocracy is tyranny by another name. [You then go on to elaborate with historical examples of how merit != virtue.]

As far as I can tell, the linked article in fact makes exactly the same point:

> They [the founders] also knew that merit was not enough; merit without virtue to accompany it could produce tyranny. They knew this, of course, through history.