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Arthur D. Hlavaty ([personal profile] supergee) wrote2017-07-25 05:53 am

The M word

Elitism has come to mean “rule by rich people who went to Ivy League schools.” Now, meritocracy is coming to mean “rule by rich people who went to Ivy League schools.” Wouldn’t it be nice to have a word for “having things done by people who are good at them”?

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commodorified: They say one thing and another thing and both at once I don't know It will all have to be gone into at the proper time (at the proper time)

[personal profile] commodorified 2017-07-25 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm pretty sure that word is "bureaucracy ", hence the campaign to make it a bad word.