re: A couple of fabulous pieces on the decline of meritocracy in America.

Honestly, both of these assessments seem a little knee-jerk and lack much nuance. Meritocracy has long been a bit of a joke in this country. That doesn’t mean there aren’t avenues for people to be successful. It does mean there are a lot more barriers on the avenues for the underprivileged.

The flip side is many on the left have taken some extreme actions to try and remove some of those barriers, but the fact will always remain that privilege begets privilege and poverty begets poverty. There is no silver bullet to change those two facts.