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  1. A #kakistocracy is a state of #government, in which the incompetent and most scrupulous people hold #power. The opposite of a #meritocracy. A perfect, contemporary example of a kakistocracy is the current #US #administration, while #China is the closest the world has to offer for a meritocracy.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistoc

    #politics

  2. A #kakistocracy is a state of #government, in which the incompetent and most scrupulous people hold #power. The opposite of a #meritocracy. A perfect, contemporary example of a kakistocracy is the current #US #administration, while #China is the closest the world has to offer for a meritocracy.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistoc

    #politics

  3. A #kakistocracy is a state of #government, in which the incompetent and most scrupulous people hold #power. The opposite of a #meritocracy. A perfect, contemporary example of a kakistocracy is the current #US #administration, while #China is the closest the world has to offer for a meritocracy.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistoc

    #politics

  4. A #kakistocracy is a state of #government, in which the incompetent and most scrupulous people hold #power. The opposite of a #meritocracy. A perfect, contemporary example of a kakistocracy is the current #US #administration, while #China is the closest the world has to offer for a meritocracy.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistoc

    #politics

  5. A #kakistocracy is a state of #government, in which the incompetent and most scrupulous people hold #power. The opposite of a #meritocracy. A perfect, contemporary example of a kakistocracy is the current #US #administration, while #China is the closest the world has to offer for a meritocracy.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistoc

    #politics

  6. Navigating the Void: Why Nigeria Needs a Corporate Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) Framework

    In a standard DPA regime, a company that self-reports and cooperates can avoid the "corporate death penalty" of a criminal conviction. In Nigeria, we are currently forced to rely on the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) 2015. While the ACJA provides for Plea Bargaining, it is a fundamentally different animal from a DPA:

    lawakhigbe.com/2026/08/01/navi

  7. I've been wittering on about the history and failings of Meritocracy, but I hadn't drafted a version for Substack.
    👉 brywillis634737.substack.com/p

    I've purposely left Trump, but clearly he's a central figure in this perspective. Very few situations merit meritocracy as a lens, but we seem to overextend it. It is certainly overrepresented in business.

    #philosophy #merit #business #linkedin #meritocracy #video #podcast #substack #politics #language #culture #dei #promotions #statistics #heuristics

  8. With man-child #Trump every accusation is a confession.

    #Corruption - Implementing tarriffs and bargaining with meme coins.

    #Meritocracy - reversing DEIA and hiring loyalists.

    #StealingElections - voter suppression and gerrymandering

    #FreeSpeech - labeling dissidents as terrorists.

    “TDS”. - i.e BDS: everything is Biden’s fault.

    “Woke mind virus” - i.e reactionary mind virus: essentialism, greed, sadism and scapegoating.

    #uspol #maga #projection

  9. White people who think racism is mostly a thing of the past, or that if people of color have trouble getting jobs it must be because they're lazy or unqualified, you need to take a look at this: tech.lgbt/@kitsunecafe/1131998

    Racists are everywhere, including in "liberal" or "enlightened" fields like tech, and they'll just deadass scuttle people's chances of getting hired for bogus reasons.

    #racism #WorkplaceRacism #SystematicRacism #racist #meritocracy