$omg&3lol$μμμ ναι ...στον Υπαρκτό Κόσμο, βέβαια, το πραγματάκι χωλαίνει:Class and classism and the meritocratic fantasy"It’s easy to see how people could overrate their own hard work and its relevance to their own success (such as it is) and believe that hating poor people is a way of providing crucial tough love. We can jumble up the causal links and think that hating hte poor will help make the meritocratic dream more real. It serves as a way of voicing our belief in the meritocratic ideal"http://www.popmatters.com/post/110144-class-and-classism-and-the-meritocratic-fantasy/The False Promise of Meritocracy"But Castilla’s analysis revealed some very non-meritocratic outcomes. Women, ethnic minorities, and non-U.S.-born employees received a smaller increase in compensation compared with white men, despite holding the same jobs, working in the same units, having the same supervisors, the same human capital, and importantly, receiving the same performance score. Despite stating that “performance is the primary bases for all salary increases,” the reality was that women, minorities, and those born outside the U.S. needed “to work harder and obtain higher performance scores in order to receive similar salary increases to white men.”"http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/12/meritocracy/418074/