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[-] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Underrated answer. Meritocracy is a lie, folks, even within the West. If you do everything perfectly you will climb a little bit, and only on average. All the counterexamples you're thinking of are people who won a lottery of some kind. And of course, birth is also a lottery.

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