Meritocracy
topic on 8 shows · 12 statements across 11 episodes
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12 statements about Meritocracy, every show
Lessin: Pushing hard for meritocracy and open competition has become completely mainstream
“It is interesting how that like, let's just Drive hard on meritocracy and, like, the best people should have it, open competition, etc. Went from being kind of fringy to, like, completely mainstream”
Hughes: Meritocracy Is Measured by Psychometrics Directly Linking to Outcomes
“Ultimately you would want to see a tight link between individual psychometric scores and outcomes. That would be in a way the measure of meritocracy.”
Karp: The woke left and right both undermine meritocracy
“The thing that unifies the woke left and the woke right is they don't like the consequences of meritocracy. They want to work back to the inputs. So in that, that like just will screw society. It's like, you've got to be able to allow people to succeed whereve…”
Sam Lessin: DEI narratives hijacked tech's basic labor supply economics
“I'd actually argue in the last 10 years, those narratives about just straight up Supply and demand and meritocracy got slightly hijacked by like DEI style. We're doing this for equity reasons or for access reasons, as opposed to straight economic reasons. That…”
De Botton: Believing in Meritocracy Means Believing Failure is Deserved
“Because if you really believe in a world in which everyone who gets to the top deserves to get to the top, you have to believe in a world in which those who get to the bottom deserve to be at the bottom.”
Fryer: Pure meritocracy yields both higher productivity and diversity by eliminating bias
“If companies have bias, then
Meritocracy is completely consistent with a DEI strategy.
Because what you, because if you're getting to your talent frontier and you have bias, you're removing that bias and you're saying, look, I'm just going to hire the best p…”
Fryer: Corporate executives want meritocracy but struggle with communication
“I, in my experience
Executives really want meritocracy.
They don't know how to say it in the right way, and they're trying to figure out that it's more of a comms problem than it is the substance problem.”
Sean Rad: Identity politics has invaded meritocracy
“I think we've had identity politics invade meritocracy.”
Gupta: Shielding People From Merit Fails Because Reality Enforces Absolute Standards
“And it also is dishonest to the person, because at some point, you're going to have to pay the piper. At some point, the world will decide whether you are good enough for the thing the world is asking you to do. Whatever it is, like, no one's going to listen t…”
Hoffman: Meritocracy is an important ideal and a dangerous religion
“Meritocracy is an important ideal and a dangerous religion.”
Fisher: Workplace Meritocracy Often Fuels Destructive Internal Competition
“Sometimes meritocracy builds internal struggle, internal competition, right? I've been in way too many businesses where it's like sales versus development or sales versus operations or what have you, right? And it's always about who's going to make the numbers…”