Meritocracy

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…

Jarrett Bell USA TODAY Published 7:30 AM EST Feb 13, 2020 Colin Kaepernick’s voice is getting stronger. That much is clear as the former NFL quarterback plans to announce Thursday he is writing a memoir to be released this year through his newly formed company, Kaepernick Publishing, in a partnership with Audible.…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defended comments she made about the "bootstrap" meritocracy by invoking Martin Luther King Jr. "I see that the right is worked up that we pointed out the myth of bootstrapping when 60% of the wealth in this country is *inherit…

University of California’s review of its admissions procedures smiles on SATsLIKE ANY hotbed of scholarly activity, the University of California (UC) is no stranger to rows. Recently a debate over the use of SATs and ACTs, tests used in college admissions, has spilled out from campus and into the courtroom.…

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Im no good at counting, so I asked Carol Bagan, the house manager at the city auditorium in Concord, New Hampshire, how many people had just heard South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg give a speech. Six hundred and fifty to 700 souls, she sa…

S. Mitra Kalita is the senior vice president for news, opinion and programming at CNN Digital. She is the author of two books, one on migration to American suburbia and the other on globalization. The opinions expressed in this commentary are her own. (CNN…