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"The book tries to show how paradoxical meritocracy is. It is transformed by being used through politics and its dark side towards inequality.

The remedy is to remind the successful that the position of the family or nation where they were born allowed them to be successful. Humility is the antidote to the arrogance of meritocracy".

Michael Sandel's reflection and his book The Tyranny of Merit in conversation with Moisés Naím.