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AccordingToJaya's avatar

Stop being *

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AccordingToJaya's avatar

Ouch. I need to be so judgemental towards religious Nigerians then . Because I can’t understand how they are letting themselves be that brainwashed.

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Brad & Butter's avatar

> The demerit of meritocracy is it eliminates the role of luck in events

A worse conjecture:

(a) the demerit of meritocracy is that it assumes an excessive amounts of luck as a mechanism to take the heat out of the necessity of sensible humane safety nets along with biological significance on mental adaptiveness and diligence. https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/education-doesnt-work-20 https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/non-cognitive-skills-for-educational https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/grit-or-the-moralists-fable-about-education https://wyclif.substack.com/p/the-natural-selection-paper-part

(b) This whole thing is made such that everyone will overwork for a biologically unattainable dream, since productivity is capped relative to neurological limits. Likely a culture of prestige and productivity is at play.

In simpler fashion, a limit is defined by what one cannot do even if they try their best, thus denial of limits must also imply the denial of material friction and the purpose of human suffering as the complement of human bliss.

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