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Linked to https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/forcing-and-detouring
On meritocracy and how it can create horrific violence: https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/forcing-and-detouring
"We already had plenty of reasons to make good work a major policy goal. But if good work also keeps people from joining the secret police? All the better.
"But I’ll go a step further: if one of the outcomes of pyramid-shaped hierarchical systems is a group of losers who may, out of desperation, be recruited into doing harm in order to save face or provide for their family, then maybe that system has to go."
from mandy brown, A Working Library
