Meritocracy
Principle according to which positions and rewards should be distributed by talent, effort, and performance rather than origin or privilege, defending equal opportunity and selection by ability.
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Principle according to which positions and rewards should be distributed by talent, effort, and performance rather than origin or privilege, defending equal opportunity and selection by ability.
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I want a society where talent and effort decide positions, with equal opportunity and rewards proportional to each person's merit.
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Our Meritocracy model centers on society where talent and effort decide positions, with equal opportunity and rewards proportional to each person's merit. That core does not specify the constitutional allocation of power between territorial units and a center. Administrative centralization, social equality and opposition to the state are different claims from a federal constitution.

Our Meritocracy model centers on society where talent and effort decide positions, with equal opportunity and rewards proportional to each person's merit. That core does not specify who can choose, replace and hold political decision-makers accountable. A social or economic objective does not by itself establish elections, popular sovereignty or an unelected ruling elite.

Our Meritocracy model centers on society where talent and effort decide positions, with equal opportunity and rewards proportional to each person's merit. That core does not specify the permissible use of public coercion versus protected personal autonomy. The form of government does not alone establish the extent of surveillance, repression or civil liberty.

Our Meritocracy model centers on society where talent and effort decide positions, with equal opportunity and rewards proportional to each person's merit. That core does not specify minority membership, migration and the coexistence of cultural identities. Shared economic interests or a universal philosophical ethic do not alone specify immigration or cultural-integration policy.

Our Meritocracy model centers on society where talent and effort decide positions, with equal opportunity and rewards proportional to each person's merit. That core does not specify the political role of organized armed force and acceptance of war. Domestic coercion, economic state intervention and national pride do not by themselves establish militarism or pacifism.


Our Meritocracy model centers on society where talent and effort decide positions, with equal opportunity and rewards proportional to each person's merit. That core does not specify coercive foreign projection into other peoples or states. This axis concerns foreign intervention, not nationalism, domestic regulation, cultural confidence or military preparedness alone.


Our Meritocracy model centers on society where talent and effort decide positions, with equal opportunity and rewards proportional to each person's merit. That core does not specify ownership of productive assets, land and enterprises. Welfare spending, moral solidarity and expert administration do not by themselves abolish or privatize productive ownership.

Our Meritocracy model centers on society where talent and effort decide positions, with equal opportunity and rewards proportional to each person's merit. That core does not specify how production and allocation are coordinated through plans or decentralized exchange. Public ownership can coexist with markets, and private firms can operate under directed planning.

Our Meritocracy model centers on society where talent and effort decide positions, with equal opportunity and rewards proportional to each person's merit. That core does not specify cross-border trade, capital flows and economic integration. Domestic market freedom and international cultural solidarity are different claims from a free-trade policy.


Our Meritocracy model centers on society where talent and effort decide positions, with equal opportunity and rewards proportional to each person's merit. That core does not specify whether public rules and political authority are grounded in religious doctrine. Personal faith, atheism, religious identity and rejection of a state do not alone establish the source of public rules.

Our Meritocracy model centers on society where talent and effort decide positions, with equal opportunity and rewards proportional to each person's merit. That core does not specify public attitudes toward inherited customs, family, gender and social change. Economic redistribution, technological novelty and a religious affiliation do not uniquely determine every moral position.

Our Meritocracy model centers on society where talent and effort decide positions, with equal opportunity and rewards proportional to each person's merit. That core does not specify the priority given to technological transformation versus ecological or bodily limits. Historical age, rural life and scientific reasoning do not by themselves establish acceptance or rejection of all technology.

Leans further toward globalism than 80% of the 250 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Trade is where it stands furthest from the rest.


On Intervention, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.

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