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Infrapolitics is to politics what infrared is to light. Its domain encompasses the acts, gestures, and thoughts that are not quite political enough to be perceived as such.

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A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you (press.princeton.edu)

submitted 3 months ago by Five to c/infrapolitics

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[–] Yondoza@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So what would you propose as an alternative? Should we go back to nepotism? I feel like a flawed implementation of meritocracy is better than openly accepting nepotism again.

[–] poVoq 4 points 3 months ago

What makes you think our current system isn't mostly based on nepotism? What exactly do you want to go "back" to?

And even if you are lucky to be based in a slightly more meritocratic society, you argument is similar to someone saying "Should we go back to monarchism? I feel like a flawed implementation of capitalism is better than openly accepting monarchy again." Which is a false dichotomy.

And no, I am not going to spoon-feed you viable alternatives, because apparently you are still stuck in the TINA mindset, which you first need to discard.