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Obama was a fucking constitutional law scholar, you don't get less meritocratic than that.
Well yeah you can, being a constitutional scholar would probably make you well-suited to being President, no?
But also it's an *elected* role, merit is not the point, this is a poor example. CEOs would make more sense.
Comment by BioSemantics at 20/01/2025 at 19:06 UTC
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But also it's an elected role, merit is not the point, this is a poor example. CEOs would make more sense.
I don't know what you think you mean when you say 'merit' if you don't understand how becoming president after having been a constitutional law scholar isn't related to merit. Feel free to actually think through that process. What that would take. This really isn't complicated. CEOs are often LESS merit based than elected office positions because there is no election of a CEO, they are often hired/appointed by boards and their job, depending on the size of the company, is just to ensure the will of the shareholders is done and make a bunch of amoral decisions though up by smarter sociopathic think-tank assholes. That does not take a lot of ability. The sorts of education most of these high-end CEOs have is laughable. The degree itself might come from a 'meritorious' institution but its often just a MBA. Have you met many MBAs? Morons. Absolute morons. They are morons compared to actual scholars. I've met both. The sort of person who becomes a CEO is often just who is the least like to complain about immorality of their job. It has nothing to do with merit. Again, as I said in my original comment, people seem to confuse being the richest or the most sociopathic for merit. That is not what merit is.