If technology was the problem then the answer is more technology. This is what the record has shown for mankind's story up to this point.
If economic growth was the problem, the answer may not be more growth but more even growth.
Meritocracy may be in between what technology and economic growth is to us. Enlarging meritocracy is distributing meritocracy more widely, better said as not just levelling the playing field but enlarging it as well.
We are the product of yesterday's meritocracy. It has served its purpose and allowing it to persist will end up defeating its reason for being. The way forward is to disrupt the present meritocracy with more meritocracy which cannot be done before. Our current meritocracy creates many more opportunities for meritocracy as long as we are not wedded to its present form. We must move on to make the playing ground larger and more level. It may not be completely level and in some places, especially the old grounds, it may remain steep, but the field should be a much larger so that in very uneven grounds people have the option to move away to large level fields.
Yes, we should maximize technology to make it possible and practical. After our first full cycle with meritocracy we must recognize our future belongs to periodically and may be eventually continuously disrupting, remaking and especially enlarging our meritocracy.
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