Meritocracy is a scam. It all depends on luck.
Working hard is kinda the only way, since it gives more chance for luck to happen, but I know many people that fail terribly even after working hard, and I have met people that achieved success without doing anything due to a streak of luck.
Meritocracy sucks and is a fantasy, as you said, but I keep working hard because I have no choice. Good luck to us, because 99% of those who work hard fail terribly.
Let just say smart work gives more chances of luck than hard work. To me, I feel hard work is more like a waste of time in most cases. You work smart by studying past and future events of how things have and would occur to determine what you need to do.
Meritocracy simple doesn't exist. And truth the world as it is now is who knows who, what connections do you have. With that, you can even get lucky than someone who works tirelessly and maybe someone who works smart. But this life, if you want to succeed, you need to be SMART.
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