Accumulation Quote by Immanuel Wallerstein

“The meritocratic society has given way to a hereditary meritocracy.”

— Edward Luce

Any attempt to redress the inequities and injustices that plague our society has to start with the reality that we will never live in…

— Dawn Foster

What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue instead of…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

“Meritocracy is a social arrangement like any other: it is a loose set of rules that can be adapted in order to obscure advantages,…

— Shamus Rahman Khan

That the actual practice of meritocracy mostly involves a strenuous quest to avoid any kind of downward mobility, for oneself or for one's kids,…

— Ross Douthat

“David Brooks, “Our Founding Yuppie,” Weekly Standard, Oct. 23, 2000, 31. The word “meritocracy” is an argument-starter, and I have employed it sparingly in…

— Walter Isaacson

Meritocracy is our social ideal, particularly among good liberals. Equality of opportunity, but not of outcome. Not evaluating people by their [outside] features, but…

— Chris Hayes

To those critics who see capitalism as a system of inegalitarian, oppressive structures, its defenders have vaunted its ability to recognize and encourage what…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

“At its most basic, the logic of 'meritocracy' is ironclad: putting the most qualified, best equipped people into the positions of greates responsibility and…

— Christopher Hayes

But the truth is the meritocracy is a lie. Those born into wealth and privilege will always be able to game the system for…

— Krystal Ball

“Man's merit lieth in service and virtue and not in the pageantry of wealth and riches.”

— Bahá'u'lláh

When people are judged by merit, not connections, then the best and brightest can lead the country, people will work hard, and the entire…

— Barack Obama