It's a good book that discusses different angles of meritocracy and how it could be corrosive to the common good through the lens of statistics, politics, philosophy. The arguments made are nuanced and comprehensively backed up by statistics and morality.

It is largely well-written. However, since the author references so many sources and jumps back and forth between these, I find it a bit difficult at times to keep track of the main point being argued for in a given section. It also sometime feels like the same point is being repeated over and over again but in a different flavour (for example, on the rhetoric of rising).

It's still overall a great book, but does take a bit more effort to read than other books of the same category because of the above reasons.