Meritocracy

Feb 26, 2020Ariel HelwaniESPN Staff Writer Let's make something very clear right off the bat:Jose Aldo getting a bantamweight title shot against Henry Cejudo isn't the most egregious title shot in UFC history.No, that distinction still belongs to Alexander Gustafsson, who got a shot at then-light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier…

Lisa Nandy claims she “would have the courage to listen” to voters’ concerns about immigration, while arguing that Labour should make the case for freedom of movement. Nor was she alone in this balancing act: Keir Starmer attempted something similar on the Today programme yesterday, pledging to scrap the government’s…

Anyone familiar with Bryant Terry’s work as a James Beard award–winning educator, chef, and author knows his M.O.: He’s been teaching the importance of eating whole foods, and working to create a healthful, just food system since his beginning as a grassroots activist almost 20 years ago. Terry was inspired…

In the paper Owning Ethics: Corporate Logics, Silicon Valley, and the Institutionalization of Ethics by Jacob Metcalf, Emanuel Moss and Danah Boyd the authors investigates the role and pitfalls of ethics in big cooperate firms in Silicon Valley and how underlying logic in the industry influences how ethics is understood…

Network neutrality is the principle that obliges data carriers, the telecommunication companies that transport internet traffic, to not discriminate as to the content that they transport, they are ‘neutral’ towards it. February 24, 2020 by P2P Foundation Leave a Comment — By Michel Bauwens Network neutrality is the principle that…

Imagine Yankee Stadium filled with individuals worth $1 million each; Bloomberg is richer than all of them combined. 6:00 AM ET Staff writer at The Atlantic Mark Felix / AFP / GettyHow rich is Michael Bloomberg?We can measure it in numerical terms: He is worth an estimated $64 billion. That…

The Gray Area of Casting For Characters of Color in Games “People of color are more visible in games today than ever before. We’re even seeing many taking center stage, such as Bayek in Assassin’s Creed Origins, Alex Hunter in FIFA 17’s single-player campaign “The Journey,” and Kait Diaz in…

Yves here. While it was refreshing to see some Democratic presidential candidates depict inequality as an important political and economic issue, it would help if they sharpened their critique of why concentrated wealth is suspect. Too much inherited money lead to the creation of dynasties. As Bloomberg is so vividly…

Image: Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay, CC0 Public Domain Do people in Britain resent the rich? According to two new studies published this week, the answer to this question is: not really.The studies, one commissioned by Trust for London and another by Tax Justice UK, explore public attitudes towards wealth based…

Dr. Laura Baur is a psychiatrist with interests in literature review, reproductive psychiatry, and relational psychotherapy; see her website for more. Note that due to conflict of interest she doesn't treat people in the NYC rationalist social scene. Momentu…