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arethuza
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Nuclear War Survival Skills (1987)
The work that coined the term
meritocracy
was actually describing a dystopia - for the very reasons you mention around education:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy