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The Lie of Personal Merit

Capitalism survives not only through wealth and power, but through the stories it tells about fairness. One of the most dangerous of those stories is meritocracy: the idea that people rise or fall mainly because of their own effort, intelligence, or character. But a few exceptional success stories do not cancel the reality of structural […]

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