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On Purpose with Jay Shetty · July 15, 2024 · 68m
Michael Sandel on the Tyranny of Merit
Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel argues that meritocracy has become a source of division and humiliation. When winners believe they deserve their success, they look down on those who havent succeeded.
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Highlights
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Meritocracy produces winners who believe they deserve everything and losers who believe they deserve nothing
Sandel argues that the dark side of meritocracy is not that it fails to deliver equal opportunity — it is that even when it works, it produces hubris among winners and humiliation among losers.•
The sorting machine of higher education has become a mechanism for reproducing privilege, not discovering talent
Sandel argues that elite university admissions — framed as meritocratic selection — actually function as a credentialing system that launders inherited privilege into earned achievement.Was this useful?