Systems pretending to be meritocracies—systems that appear to select on merit but actually select on arbitrary factors—are fundamentally different from actual meritocracies.

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Malcolm Gladwell

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this is not a meritocracy this is simply something that's pretending to be a marketocracy

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A Perspective with Malcolm GladwellGoogle Zeitgeist
Created: 8/13/2026, 7:47:10 AM

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