A Belief in Meritocracy Is Not Only False: It’s Bad for You

The belief that hard work and talent make for success is not only false, it encourages selfishness and discrimination too

Post Office mural ‘The Bauxite Mines’ (1942) by Julius Woeltz. Image: Library of Congress

By Clifton Mark

We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed…