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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is shocking how many people were apparently walking around thinking we lived in a meritocracy. LOL[/quote]

The meritocracy is a philosophical claim that some people deserve power and riches whereas others deserve nothing. This claim is founded upon two tenets: 1) some forms of work are worth vast amounts of money because such work is important, whereas other kinds of work are not worth anything and thus the people doing such work get paid nothing (housework, for example) and 2) the value of the person is measured in what kind of work they do and how much they perform. People have no intrinsic value. They have no right to exist without meeting the approval of the work they do or don't do.

All this is false, fallacious reasoning. The value of various kinds of work is determined by rich people who tell us that working in a bank is worth much money, whereas working to raise children is completely worthless -- not worth a single dime. We can observe the meritocracy as a form of class war.[/quote]

Raising children is incredibly valuable. It just doesn’t pay the bills and never will. People need to live in reality. [/quote]

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