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4.12 AVERAGE
4.12 AVERAGE
This is one of the most important books I’ve ever read. As someone who got sober from alcohol and drugs 8 years ago, I’ve had this idea that when you work hard, you succeeds. In recent years, I’ve questioned that idea, and this book does an impeccable job explaining why meritocracy doesn’t work, and it’s moral as well as ethical implications.
2nd read:
This was my second time reading this book, and it’s one of the best books about the issues with the so-called meritocracy. Not only does Sandel discuss how we’re not really set up as a meritocracy because of all of the advantages some people have, but he also helps the reader think about justice. Sandel gets the reader to ask themself if it’s truly just for a person to be rewarded based on something they didn’t work for such as their genetics. He also presents philosophical questions around the ethics of the meritocracy. For a while, I’ve known that there are a lot of issues with meritocracy, and this book was one that really helped me see why that is.
2nd read:
This was my second time reading this book, and it’s one of the best books about the issues with the so-called meritocracy. Not only does Sandel discuss how we’re not really set up as a meritocracy because of all of the advantages some people have, but he also helps the reader think about justice. Sandel gets the reader to ask themself if it’s truly just for a person to be rewarded based on something they didn’t work for such as their genetics. He also presents philosophical questions around the ethics of the meritocracy. For a while, I’ve known that there are a lot of issues with meritocracy, and this book was one that really helped me see why that is.
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Interesting, it provides insights and possible answers to rising of populisms and stratification of classes. It lacks the courage to make a further step to propose a possible solution to the problems addressed in the whole book. But hey, first step to get better is to recognize there is a problem, second step is to get to know better the problem itself. Finding of a solution to the problem then it's just a matter of time.
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Had been meaning to read this one for a while. I thought it really picked up in the second half, very though provoking and makes you question the meritocratic convictions upon which large segments of American life are based
I really like this book as a way of bringing a common criticism of meritocracy forwarded by a wide variety of thinkers across the political spectrum to a more accessible form while bringing a salient criticism of those thinkers way of dealing with the problem. However, I still think that the author is clinging to the liberal belief that the best form of society is the republican ideal of a well informed discussion. This has never been how society has worked and I think that continue to cling to this as an ideal is apart of the issues he's been discussion.
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I personally like sciences and case studies, but it goes to talk about politics and non science field time to time.
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This book should've started at the last chapter and gone on from there.