My point entirely

I've now done a bit of googling and the word 'meritocracry' was actually first used in the 1950s as a negative concept.

The guy who coined it, wrote an essay on the topic and he then wrote this article 15 years ago when Blair began using it.

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"It is good sense to appoint individual people to jobs on their merit. It is the opposite when those who are judged to have merit of a particular kind harden into a new social class without room in it for others."

So, (pleasingly for me, I'll admit) there you have it.

Posted By: norway on September 9th 2016 at 12:20:17

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Theresa May speech entitled "Britain, The Great Meritocracy". (General Chat) - norway, Sep 9, 11:12:20
- It's all very well saying you'll help the talented working class. (General Chat) - APB, Sep 9, 12:09:57
  - Having taught in a comp with a class of 30 lads (General Chat) - Basingstoke_Canary, Sep 9, 14:28:16
  - My point entirely (General Chat) - norway, Sep 9, 12:20:17
    - It's the lack of responsibility that does it for me. (General Chat) - APB, Sep 9, 12:32:43
  - there should be more of an obligation for the government to help the talentless (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Sep 9, 12:17:26
    - Or just support them. Create jobs for all and stop the sneering at manual labour. (General Chat) - APB, Sep 9, 12:35:15
      - there's a hell of a lot of talent in 'manual labour' y'know (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Sep 9, 12:44:55
- can you link the rest of the board up with a link (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Sep 9, 11:38:56
  - Comments on twitter - no one link (n/m) (General Chat) - norway, Sep 9, 11:56:11
- Yes 100% This! (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Sep 9, 11:21:39
  - But the biggest issues facing our society are not barriers to talent (General Chat) - norway, Sep 9, 11:32:07
    - Or the fact you can fit a slack handful of people in a small room (General Chat) - harry boulders, Sep 9, 11:55:27
    - if it were possible for everyone to start from that same equal footing (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Sep 9, 11:48:08
      - Yes, that's a fair point - but I'm not saying there are *no* barriers to talent (General Chat) - norway, Sep 9, 11:55:22
    - Meritocracy just means that the cream and the shit (General Chat) - CB41, Sep 9, 11:41:18
- So subjective too. (General Chat) - avenging canary, Sep 9, 11:16:57
- She's just trying to out-Thatcher Thatcher (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Sep 9, 11:15:50
  - She's doing a good job today! (n/m) (General Chat) - avenging canary, Sep 9, 11:17:26

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