meritocracy has proved to have little merit for the goal of preserving civilization.

@profagonist VERY true

we're not in a meritocracy though

we're in the throes of credentialism

false experience gateways

with a focus on certification so that an industry of knowledge inspectors can exist

then again i acknowledge my perspective is informed by living in Australia and seeing TAFE employ so many people whose skills would be much better suited to a factory

no that's true enough

we live in a bureaucracy that reward conscientiousness over true merit

but nevertheless, in the end

they have trade certificates for both retail management and just straight up counterhard shit

our system reduces to pretty much an IQocracy

the hell it does

yes absolutely @Jake Saga your blood is your blood

so now you would have to go do a 12 week / 6 mo / 1 yr /whatever course to make yourself more likely to be hired in like

a pet store

fast food

or something

yeah

consider the past in comparison

it doesn't matter how smart you are

nah fast food is the only industry that doesn't care about experience

you will never be nobility

fast food isn't as bad a job as people say it is anyhow

at least 3 years prior sandwich construction experience

a clerical theocracy in the style of Iran also tends to reduce to something like this

yeah then some cunt wipes the fucking knife off on the top of the bun

there's absolutely nothing wrong with working in food industry

and then you're the bad guy when you about face and fucking walk out

but somehow, i've never worked a job where people weren't haughty about what they did

yeah that's the problem

if conscientiousness is a promotable platform, i'd like to know where they're hiring so i can get in

I meant it in contrast to true merit

like in school, you dont get grades for being smart, you get grades for doing work

i don't know if it's the same everywhere but every single business i go to seems to have worse standards than it did 5 years ago

people can't do their jobs anymore

i agree dude

you can't expect to have people do things right like you used to

and when people do, you have to ask and it's like some big imposition

true merit though is like a placement where you're never rewarded either way

the world would fall apart under such a system