I am really enjoying the Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markowitz. Its descriptions of how the lives of the wealthy are different than non-wealthy, how they reproduce their success, and how the blind faith in meritocracy hurts us all are compelling.

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Scholars exploring racial and gender differences speak of how differences are systemic - a mixture of policies, everyday behaviors, and attitudes that reproduce differences between populations.

They also speak of...

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...ideologies that are the "glue" that justify these inequalities.

I see the same thing with meritocracy.

There is a system in place that means if you are wealthy in 2020 you can reproduce that wealth by investing in your children.

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We see this as "fair" because they worked for it. As a result, this system is not critiqued.

I& #39;m sure future attempts to address it will be met with charges of socialism or some other nonsense.

Can& #39;t wait to get to the end of it to see what Markowitz& #39;s solutions are.

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