{"id":10092,"date":"2019-08-18T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T23:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10092"},"modified":"2019-08-22T16:44:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T23:44:40","slug":"people-livin-in-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/18\/people-livin-in-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"People livin&#8217; in competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2019\/09\/meritocracys-miserable-winners\/594760\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)\">from The Atlantic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Life Became an Endless, Terrible Competition<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Meritocracy prizes achievement above all else, making everyone\u2014even the rich\u2014miserable. Maybe there\u2019s a way out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/author\/daniel-markovits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Daniel Markovits<\/a>, Professor at Yale Law School<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.theatlantic.com\/assets\/media\/img\/posts\/2019\/07\/DIS_Lead_Markovits_Meritocracy_spot\/f7021a31b.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>EDMON DE HARO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the summer of 1987,\u00a0I graduated from a public high school in Austin, Texas, and headed northeast to attend Yale. I then spent nearly 15 years studying at various universities\u2014the London School of Economics, the University of Oxford, Harvard, and finally Yale Law School\u2014picking up a string of degrees along the way. Today, I teach at Yale Law, where my students unnervingly resemble my younger self: They are, overwhelmingly, products of professional parents and high-class universities. I pass on to them the advantages that my own teachers bestowed on me. They, and I, owe our prosperity and our caste to meritocracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two decades ago, when I started writing about economic inequality, meritocracy seemed more likely a cure than a cause. Meritocracy\u2019s early advocates championed social mobility. In the 1960s, for instance,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archives.yalealumnimagazine.com\/issues\/99_12\/admissions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Yale President Kingman Brewster brought meritocratic admissions to the university<\/a>\u00a0with the express aim of breaking a hereditary elite. Alumni had long believed that their sons had a birthright to follow them to Yale; now prospective students would gain admission based on achievement rather than breeding. Meritocracy\u2014for a time\u2014replaced complacent insiders with talented and hardworking outsiders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2019\/09\/meritocracys-miserable-winners\/594760\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at The Atlantic<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Atlantic How Life Became an Endless, Terrible Competition Meritocracy prizes achievement above all else, making everyone\u2014even the rich\u2014miserable. Maybe there\u2019s a way out. by Daniel Markovits, Professor at Yale Law School In the summer of 1987,\u00a0I graduated from a public high school in Austin, Texas, and headed northeast to attend Yale. I then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}