Meritocracy is nothing but a meme.
Anybody have the video of Andrew Yang on Colbert tonight?
Tyler Perry
Nathaniel Long
>40k references
Is there anything more pathetic?
Jaxson Bell
Of course no society is a perfect meritocracy. The point is that there is greater social mobility now in America than in any society in the history of the world. You can literally come to America as a penniless immigrant and with the right talent and hard work you can become a billionaire.
Kevin Cooper
>You can literally come to America as a penniless immigrant and with the right talent and hard work you can become a billionaire.
This hasn't been true for couple of decades. It's about luck and nepotism now, not hard work.
Jackson Reed
WRONG. Here's an example
>Jan Koum, 43, is now the CEO and co-founder of WhatsApp, a mobile messaging application. The company was acquired by Facebook in 2014 for $19.3 billion.
>He was born in Kiev (then part of the Soviet Union). He moved with his mother and grandmother to Mountain View, California in 1992, where they were living in government-assisted housing and collecting food stamps.
>Koum started working as an infrastructure engineer at Yahoo in 1997 while still attending Computer Science classes, but eventually dropped out. He worked there for nine years prior to founding the company.
Stop making excuses and get your shit together.
Camden Turner
And how much of that is actual hard work or not luck that Facebook simply decided to buy out their small social media competitor?
Jeremiah Peterson
WhatsApp had 1.5 billion users when it was acquired by facebook. Literally one fifth of the world's population was using it.