How Life Became an Endless, Terrible Competition
2nd September 2019
The Atlantic, reliable Voice of the Crust, prepares the ground for the new elite.
Meritocracy prizes achievement above all else, making everyone—even the rich—miserable. Maybe there’s a way out.
Uh, sure, assign everybody a rank at birth and assign them jobs equal to their rank that they can never leave. That ought to do it. ‘Achievement’ not required, so nobody has to worry.