The Myth of Meritocracy Quotes

“The existence of such opportunities … depends not only on an open road, but upon an equal start.”
― James Bloodworth, The Myth of Meritocracy: Why Working-Class Kids Still Get Working-Class Jobs

“Twenty-first-century social democracy will defend to the death your right to be unequal to the next man –as long as merit, rather than wealth, has placed you on your allotted rung of the ladder.”
― James Bloodworth, The Myth of Meritocracy: Why Working-Class Kids Still Get Working-Class Jobs