Stephen McHenry wrote:
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> Soon, the people who were doing the good work went elsewhere where
> they could once again do good work, unencumbered by the "meritocracy".
An alternative interpretation is that the good people started being
surrounded by less-good people who couldn't understand why their
less-good ideas weren't being praised and glorified. To explain
why less-good ideas weren't being praised simply for existing, the
good people's behavior is described as a "meritocracy". And if
the less-good people don't deal with that reality very well, the
good people go elsewhere to once again do good work, unencumbered
by the need to explain themselves as a meritocracy.
gja
