I sometimes feel that I am naive believing in a meritocracy and that freedom is mearly the ability to peruse what makes you happy and allows you to sustain yourself and earn your own keep! That your effort determains your outcome and yes there will be obstacles but why would anything worthwhile be easier? Isn’t it even more satisfying when you’ve beat the odds?
I think it’s too easy to sit back and point fingers, blame the system, blame those benefiting from the system, blame your lack of resources then doing something about your situation
I believe in meritocracy. We just have not yet created it. Mainly because we don’t understand what it is. Some good articles about it:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-role-of-luck-in-life-success-is-far-greater-than-we-realized/
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180309-your-hard-work-doesnt-actually-pay-off
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610395/if-youre-so-smart-why-arent-you-rich-turns-out-its-just-chance/
https://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase/2384-science-paths
A random pattern in data indicates that we are not measuring the dimension that create a causality/correlation relationship. We need to find this factor to create a meritocracy.