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, Sep 9, 12:20:17