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Merit based systems while more just than hereditary systems of favor and success suffer from the creation of winners and losers based on your “talent and industry” thus the winners become arrogant and the losers become discouraged and ultimately angry. Such a system fails to acknowledge the role of luck in success. And we have also failed to value the contributions of the “less successful”

critique of what “the right side of history” and “america is great because america is good” means in the context of god and politics (meritocratic faith applied to a nation)

“will a righteous man suffer?”

not everything is a reward or punishment, “all rain is not for the sake of watering the crops of the righteous, nor is every drought for the sake of punishing the wicked. it rains after all in the wilderness. creation is not only for the sake of human beings.”