The Myth of Meritocracy
The Ivy League and a few other elites run this country (for the most part) and do so on merit. That is, if you are potentially elite, you get admitted to Yale, Princeton, Harvard or maybe Stanford. Once there you meet the best professors, who prepare the brightest young people for leadership positions in the political, economic and judicial worlds. In the Ivies, young Democrats room with young Republicans. And in a meritocracy, these people deserve success because they are better than we are.
The USA is ranked the 27th country in the world in social mobility, just below South Korea and Lithuania. Once we were ranked first, but never mind.
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