For nearly two weeks, a debate ignited by a CNN documentary has raged on the Internet about the obstacles to success in Silicon Valley and whether the technology industry is as meritocratic and as color-blind as it aspires to be.
This is especially true of the U.S. military, an institution as color-blind, meritocratic and humane as no other genuinely fighting force in the world.
As an editor, Maxwell was similarly concise and efficient.
But quotas are the wrong way: "I'm dead against quotas as they are not meritocratic and they don't solve the big issues which is the lack of women in the executive pipeline.
Meritocratic systems are democratic (since, in theory, everyone gets a place at the starting line) and efficient (since resources are not wasted on the unqualified), but they are huge engines of anxiety.
The internet, however, is a new space that is more meritocratic and not as heavily male.
They just aren't yet as meritocratic as they claim to be.
What's more, the comments shattered the ostensible neutrality of radio stations, which prefer to be perceived as meritocratic spaces, even though playlists are built from a toxic combination of influence, groupthink, money and, occasionally, idiosyncrasy.
As a historian, however, I cannot let pass unchallenged the characterization of premodern Chinese political culture as "meritocratic".
