Agreed... but we also shouldn’t make them suffer and starve.
The bad part of the ‘meritocratic’ world view is not that having people who are good at certain tasks do those tasks is a bad idea, it is that thinking those people are more ‘deserving’ of a good life is bad.
People that are good at math should be math professors, but we shouldn’t think they are morally superior to the person born dumb as a rock, nor do they deserve a better life.
The bad part of the ‘meritocratic’ world view is not that having people who are good at certain tasks do those tasks is a bad idea, it is that thinking those people are more ‘deserving’ of a good life is bad.
People that are good at math should be math professors, but we shouldn’t think they are morally superior to the person born dumb as a rock, nor do they deserve a better life.