Uncle Ben gets meritocracy so very wrong in his recent Baccalaureate Speech at Princeton. Meritocracy, at least in the truest sense, holds no value for nepotism, station in life or "luck". The Capitalistic society that used to be that which governed economics in the United States fifty or so years ago relied pretty heavily on nepotism and societal placement for one's upward mobility, but once one found themselves in a place of higher power, either…Read more ›You're reading Meritocracy is...
