Merit is a many turn game

The common take now is that meritocracy isn’t real because of privilege. But it’s actually a generational or tribal meritocracy, where you do your best to set up your kids/“clan” to have the privilege that you didn’t. You might happen to get lucky for yourself, but the real game is that you work hard and in a generation or 2 your descendants will be privileged. Our hyper-individualist, short-time-horizon culture fails to see or embrace that which is why immigrants come here with nothing and have kids that become surgeons. 

:) #DeepTakes