How "meritocracy" went from a joke to a dogma, and destroyed the lives of everyone it touched

[Fang]

@doctorow

The term “meritocracy” was coined in Michael Young’s satirical 1958 novel, “The Rise of Meritocracy,” where it described a kind of self-delusion in which rich people convinced themselves that their wealth was evidence of their moral superiority;

https://www.google.com/search?q="meritocracy"&lr=lang_en&source=lnt&tbs=lr%3Alang_1en%2Ccdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F1%2F1800%2Ccd_max%3A12%2F31%2F1954&tbm=bks

(Maybe google’s dating is iffy though)