The Meritocracy Trap — How Fairness Became a System of Stratification
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
This episode explores The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markovits as a systems-level analysis of how meritocracy influences behavior, mobility, and political conflict.
By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personal success stories, the episode shows how elite education, family investment, and high-status labor markets reproduce inequality while presenting that inequality as deserved. The result is a system that excludes the middle class, exhausts the elite, and destabilizes democratic life.
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