Can you use an example? Thank you.
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Whoever works hardest, and produces the best results, deserves the most rewards – social status, pay, promotions, leadership positions, etc. That’s regardless of age, race, religion, personal connections, wealth, class, etc. And the point of a meritocracy is to equalize all that stuff out so that the benefits are based solely on performance.
The problem is that merit is very subjective. “Best results” is very dependent on a lot of variables and who you ask.
Also, when it comes to the bottom line, someone who works hard, and does an excellent job at it, but has wasted resources doing the wrong thing (no matter how well they did it) is not objectively better than a lazy person who avoided wasting resources or an incompetent person who failed to do the wrong thing.
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