Meritocracy and Societal Systems Schema

A perception of relationships between society and individual personal struggle, a heat-of-the-moment-at-2am pet theory

While pondering in a usual whining tone the worth of smart people trying to make something for themselves, and of stupid spoiled ones not breaking a sweat to have more than a decent living, my mind decided to stop being a perpetuation machine of "boo-fucking-hoo" and distanced itself. And then, this pretty(ish) form popped into my mind. Needs work, definitely, but I thought I'd plant it here and come back later to see whether it'll grow into something useful.

Observations/ Armchair hypotheses

1. The less perplexed and/or corrupt the "system", the lower the return gains from Cunning become

2. The more meritocratic the system, the higher the return gains from Talent become

3. Effort acts in a multiplicative manner to both Talent and Cunning

4. In a complex enough system, there may be a dual meritocratic channel through which both Talent and Cunning can have return gains with equal Reward and/or Satisfaction

5a. The higher the Legacy return gains, the lower the meritocracy of the "System", and the higher the nepotism.

5b. Across generations, the sum of Talent and/or Cunning * Effort becomes Legacy

5c. Initially meritocratic "Systems" tend to become nepotistic, unless Legacy is render to act multiplicative to Talent and/or Cunning, as Effort is.




Feel free to contribute, jest, flame, comment.

I will have to operationally define return gains, meritocracy, corruption etc in time, but right now I don't think I have it.



Jeers