Jan 9, 2025
Your wife was onto something when she suggested "just pick someone". If they had all met standard requirements, you could literally have chosen one of the applicants at random and stood just as high a chance of having a successful employee. I wrote an article about that very thing:
By the way, the term "meritocracy" was coined by the author Michael Young in a book that was meant to be satire. It was a warning of what would come from going down that particular rabbit hole. Now, he regrets how people have taken up the idea meritocracy without an ounce of irony:
