There are two visions of Western society that are currently on the table.
Vision one: Merit wins. Being good at things actually matters.
This vision of society has excellent, positive externalities, because when you are good at things, you end up helping other people. You end up producing goods, products and services that are useful to others.
The meritocracy is the only system ever devised by man that actually creates positive effects for everyone else in a society.
That is vision number one.
Vision number two is the oversensitive Army of Losers society. Merit is discarded in favor of your level of being offended. The more of a failure you are, the more you get to be offended, and the more offended you are, the worse society is.
That’s because if the people who are unsuccessful get to run all of the levers of society, and part of what they get to do is declare that their un-success is…
