The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it's not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what has happened. The teachers can't teach and administrators run the place and nobody can be fired. It's terrible.
One of the best things about being an actor is that it's a meritocracy.
Chess is a meritocracy.
I loved working on Wall Street. I loved the meritocracy of it and the camaraderie of the trading floor.
Meritocracy has nothing to do with who gets in. It's more who you are and where you come from and where you are employed.
Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.
The military is a meritocracy. It's an up or out. It's shaped like a pyramid.
Comedy is a meritocracy. If you are funny, you are there. If you are not, you are out.
I don't think actually that kind of ego check or "I could do better" mentality probably serves better in Hollywood, because it's definitely not a meritocracy. You can look at any number of careers and sort of see that they don't really make sense if it was only based on your movies working either creatively or financially. There are people that move ahead without that, and there are people that don't move ahead even if they did have that.
The world is not a meritocracy, as much as we may like to pretend that it is. And we have a long way to go before we really reward people based on their own merit.
This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their position.
People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.
