Meritocracy is also a
social state in which people are judged not by their
appearence,
name,
gender,
sex, or any other
arbitrary standard, but only on their
abilities and
skills. Meritocracy is much more
evident in
internet-related jobs and in the
technology fields. I'm not sure
why this is so, but it is fairly
obvious that it is true. Maybe
geeks are so strange that people have learned more
toleration for what is
different than them.
*grin*
It is the natural extension of all
civil rights movements. Relating to the
Black Civil Rights Movement in the
United States, it would appear to me that during that time black people were fighting for their
equality. Yet, they didn't want to be
held above
people of other races, they wanted to be held to the same
standards as others. That is what
equality is all about. All civil rights movements attempt to get other people to hold everybody to the same standards. If the same
standards are used for everybody, then the only standards that can be used are those that specifically apply. In terms of a job, that means can this person do the job, and do the job well? Do they have the right attitude?
I would imagine that
ideally every economy would be based on
Meritocracy. Why hire somebody for a job who has no skills? Why not hire somebody for a job who is very qualified but maybe doesn't look the way you expect them to? Meritocracy does not mean that you have to
like everybody, or that you have to be
friends with everybody, but more that you respect people's individuality and judge them by their
skills and
abilities as applicable.