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A review by jasmineting
The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel
4.5
reframed my thinking fr
“… in a meritocratic age, being smart carried more persuasive heft than being right”
“… at a time when racism and sexism are out of favor (discredited though not eliminated), credentialism is the last acceptable prejudice”
“allocating jobs & opportunities according to merit does not reduce inequality; it reconfigures inequality to align with ability”
“equality of opportunity is a morally necessary corrective to injustice. but it is a remedial principle, not an adequate ideal for a good society … rather than repair the conditions that people want to flee, we construct a politics that makes mobility the answer to inequality”
“… in a meritocratic age, being smart carried more persuasive heft than being right”
“… at a time when racism and sexism are out of favor (discredited though not eliminated), credentialism is the last acceptable prejudice”
“allocating jobs & opportunities according to merit does not reduce inequality; it reconfigures inequality to align with ability”
“equality of opportunity is a morally necessary corrective to injustice. but it is a remedial principle, not an adequate ideal for a good society … rather than repair the conditions that people want to flee, we construct a politics that makes mobility the answer to inequality”