Why is a meritocratic system important in the modern day? Please explain

Meritocracy represents a vision in which power and privilege would be allocated by individual merit, not by social origins. Inspired by the meritocratic ideal, many people these days are committed to a view of how the hierarchies of money and status in our world should be organized. so when stuff started no one was really able 2 have power and privilege then people started standing up for themselves then that is when they was able 2 get power and priviledge

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