Statistics against meritocracy

Abstract

Meritocracy, understood as a proposal for the organization and interpretation of the distribution of wealth based on individual merit, supports certain discourses and practices linked to liberal worldviews that give rise to phenomena such as the romanticization of poverty, job insecurity, dissolution social struggles, the invisibility of social structure conflicts by reducing them to individual conflicts, among several others (Szlechter, Vanegas and Tijonchuk, 2018). This type of discourse has reached such an incidence in Latin America that there is a real discursive war between the defenders of this type of model (who are not necessarily subjects of high purchasing power or upper classes) against the critics of this type of ideas. .