**See Also:** - Meritocracy, in a nutshell, is "a political system in which economic goods or political power are vested in individual people based on ability and talent, rather than wealth or social class." ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy)) - That is, government by those who [[Merit]] to do so. - The question is, How is merit assessed in the context of [[Governance]]? - Since merit can apply to many different contexts, there are many different meritocracies that can arise. - This suggests a society in which power is structured in *multiple, overlapping hierarchies*, one hierarchy for each type of merit. - One context is that of attempting to improve a society by measuring the merit of "regular citizens", then - seeking to reward those of greater merit, and - providing support/education/training to those of lesser merit. ([[Rank-Ordering Behaviour]]) - Should merit be disjoint from but complementary to the system of criminal law? - Criminal law can handle behaviours that run *against* a society's [[Values]]. - Merit can handle behaviours that run *with* a society's values. %% Notes to absorb ```dataview list from [[]] and !"Templates" and !outgoing([[]]) sort file.name asc ``` %%