How do the people who select those based on merit to advance advance themselves?
MERITOCRACY IS A FLAWED SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE; THE MOST TECHNICALLY ABLE, OR THE MOST APT AT ACHIEVING CONCRETE GOALS, ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE NOBLEST, SO, TO ESTABLISH MERIT AS THE PRIME HIERARCHICAL CRITERION IS SUBOPTIMAL; NOBILITY, AND EXCELLENCE, SHOULD BE THE PRIME HIERARCHICAL CRITERIA —ARISTOCRACY, NOT MERITOCRACY.
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Read Micheal Young's Rise of Meritocracy when he coined that word. Basically elites buy into the meritocracy without actually enforcing it so they shed any noblesse oblige their privilege brings.
Also equality of opportunity does not mean giving everyone in an unequal society equal opportunities