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> All the business relations between people are inherently meritocratic.

That is why there are precisely zero complaints about broken hiring processes and promotion schemes.

That's in fact why we can have a discussion about hiring processes and promotion schemes in the private sector. In the public sector that simply doesn't exist as it's all a monopoly (obviously enough), there's no alternatives to point to to say which one is a better model. That's what meritocracy is, meritocracy isn't that meritless things don't exist.

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