[lbo-talk] Harry Potter, Metritocracy, and Reward

[Carl Remick]

>From: andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>
>
>Me, I'm a thoroughgoing elitist and inegalitarian. I
>don't think that cornering a market in skill, etc.
>should give anyone the right to monopolize all the
>good things in life, much less to pass it on to one's
>undeserving children. But I think that accomplishment
>deserves honor, contribution deserves material reward,
>inequality can be based on desert as well as need, and
>lots of other bourgeois ideology. But I never said i
>wasn't a bourgeois liberal.

The shades of night were falling fast,
As through an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice,
A banner with the strange device,

       Bourgeois liberal!

As for me, I think accomplishment merits only nominal award.  Perhaps 
overachievers might be enititled to wear a (small) laurel wreath, but that's 
it.

Carl

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