The Rise of the Meritocracy

that's the argument behind Michael Young's book about the rise of the meritocracy

In general, you know, I'd read Richard Reaves' book.

Richard Reaves talks about this.

He has to prostrate himself on that.

He taught me about this over a year ago now where he said that as soon as you throw out the term toxic masculinity, it causes so many men to just check out of the conversation.

The person who invented the term meritocracy was Michael Young who wrote this wonderful magnificent sort of really clever clever book in 1958 called or called the rise of the meritocracy and what he was saying in that book was that the problem with meritocracy the problem with IQ tests is that they work and the meritocracy works.

He wrote a book called The Rise of the Meritocracy. It's a fiction novel that's about a dystopian future where society organizes things around a meritocracy.

And it's funny, you can hear that and be like, oh, oh my God, what could possibly be wrong with a society based on merit?

Well, Michael Young saw the problems that Sandell thinks are playing out in the real world all around us.

And then in the year 2034 in the book, there's a violent populist uprising of all the citizens that feel betrayed by the leaders of the society that they're a part of.