meritocracy is an invention by rich people who abandoned the responsibilities of wealth in order to justify to proles why they deserve to hoard wealth and luxury without paying society their due diligence. transnational business kicked off the decay of the local community and now wealthy people have outsized their previous roles of stability and local leadership, vying for and taking higher offices plutocratically, undermining our republic and our work culture. no longer residents of the towns of their factories -- no longer restricted to keeping their factories in this country to begin with -- they cheat the worker and the citizen because they are free to. now we enter a race to the bottom, and the americans who built these companies by way of tax-funded grants and subsidies must now work for peanuts if they are called to work at all.
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