Have they been seen as mostly innocent?
They just aren't yet as meritocratic as they claim to be.
Or are you arguing for affirmative action, where less qualified people are employed because of their gender or race, which is the opposite of meritocracy?The tech industry is as meritocratic as it comes.
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.
That's ideologically awkward for the tech industry, which sees itself as a meritocratic accelerator.
ENA was set up in 1945 as a meritocratic institution meant to produce a post-war administrative elite.
China's philosophies once stimulated European thinkers such as Leibniz and Voltaire, as did the perception of China as a meritocratic state where talent, not birth, ensured success.
Fortunately, though, there is another rising middle class here, which the Mexican economist Luis de la Calle describes as the "meritocratic middle class".
The school has been romanticized as a meritocratic place that treated both sexes equally, but that wasn't strictly true, especially in its early years.
In the late nineties, even before Google's executives publicly pledged not to be evil, they were positioning their company's search engine as a meritocratic alternative to the main options at the time.
