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Your definition of merit includes “ my parents could afford housing in good school districts and tutoring to supplement said schooling” that’s not true merit.[/quote]

That is indeed merit. Ask yourself what merit means to you - what practical purpose it serves either you or society at large. People who are recognized for their merit don't just print their merit on a piece of paper and hang it on a wall for visitors to admire. The merit people achieve is *always* measured in the way it improves the lives of people, including themselves. If someone worked hard to afford housing in a good school district, that's an achievement, a merit, and it's perfectly within their right to pass on the benefits of that merit to their children, who then take advantage of that privilege in order to achieve good academic performance - another merit. In this way, merit of one generation builds on top of the merit of the previous generation, and society as a whole advances rather than stagnates. [/quote]

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