The Meritocracy Party

Meritocracy is about what you can do, not what people can do for you. Society deserves your inheritance because every unborn deserves equal opportunity to become all they can be. We want a society of smart, ambitious and autonomous individuals whose talents and strengths have been maximized. In a society of privilege only a handful of people […]

Bear in mind that most truly large businesses are corporations owned by shareholders. The death of one “owner” would mean very little, as that person’s shares could simply be sold at the current market value. A sole-proprietorship (business run by a single individual), on the other hand, could be put for sale or shut down […]

The issue here is how you define equal representation. Meritocracy achieves equal representation where democracy fails. Does your democracy benefit every single person equally? When a decision is made by a democracy, nine times out of ten that decision will benefit a few super-rich families while disadvantaging everyone else. That’s not equal representation. In the […]

What kind of sick society considers destroying the earth good for the economy? Can you wrap your mind around how twisted our economic leadership is? Economics is supposed to be about generating wealth for the species, but as a species our most valuable assets are clean water, intact ecosystems, and safe coasts to live on. […]

There is no free market. The markets are completely captured—dominated by cartels of one sort or another. Don’t say the market is free; say that it is rigged, enslaved, held hostage. Today’s markets are not much more than traps for suckers. How many billions have been stolen from pensions using market manipulation? The free market […]