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The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
by Michael J. Sandel
I always had this idea in my mind that rewarding people based on merit isn't actually fair. Sandel just came and wrote a whole book about it and I loved it.
The book starts with how faulty our system is in terms of choosing people based on Merit. Not all skilled or hard-working people have the same chance to succeed. The second part of the book discusses how even if we managed to live in an ideal world, where chances would be equal, meritocracy would basically reward the people with the best genetics. The final third of the book tries to find solutions to this problem and how to address it in a realistic way.
The book is written by Michael Sandel, the author of probably the best non-fiction book I have read; Justice. This feels like another idea to add to that but expanded into a full book. You will not find the same breadth of topics here as in Justice, but it's also not a long read.
The book starts with how faulty our system is in terms of choosing people based on Merit. Not all skilled or hard-working people have the same chance to succeed. The second part of the book discusses how even if we managed to live in an ideal world, where chances would be equal, meritocracy would basically reward the people with the best genetics. The final third of the book tries to find solutions to this problem and how to address it in a realistic way.
The book is written by Michael Sandel, the author of probably the best non-fiction book I have read; Justice. This feels like another idea to add to that but expanded into a full book. You will not find the same breadth of topics here as in Justice, but it's also not a long read.