{"id":1974,"date":"2019-12-24T23:54:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T23:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=1974"},"modified":"2019-12-24T23:54:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T23:54:42","slug":"how-meritocracy-harms-everyone-even-the-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=1974","title":{"rendered":"How meritocracy harms everyone \u2014 even the winners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;the bulk of the reason why our colleges, particularly our elite colleges, are filled with kids of rich parents isn\u2019t that. Instead, it\u2019s that rich parents spend enormous sums of money not on bribing anybody but on educating their children, on getting their children into prestigious kindergartens and high schools, on coaches and tutors and music teachers, and this means the children of rich people simply do better on the merits.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so the big problem that we face isn\u2019t merely that the rich cheat, it\u2019s that the meritocracy favors the rich even when everybody plays by the rules.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/identities\/2019\/10\/21\/20897021\/meritocracy-economic-mobility-daniel-markovits\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/identities\/2019\/10\/21\/20897021\/meritocracy-economic-mobility-daniel-markovits<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;the bulk of the reason why our colleges, particularly our elite colleges, are filled with kids of rich parents isn\u2019t that. Instead, it\u2019s that rich parents spend enormous sums of money not on bribing anybody but on educating their children, on getting their children into prestigious kindergartens and high schools, on coaches and tutors and music teachers, and this means the children of rich people simply do better on the merits.<\/p>\n<p>And so the big problem that we face isn\u2019t merely that the rich cheat, it\u2019s that the meritocracy favors the rich even when everybody plays by the rules.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[98,94,93,95,96,99,97,100,101],"class_list":["post-1974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-advantage","tag-colleges","tag-elite","tag-elite-colleges","tag-merit","tag-meritocracy","tag-merits","tag-rich","tag-wealthy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1975,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions\/1975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}