# Meritocracy doesn't exist, and believing it does is bad for you - Host: [fastcompany.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/fastcompany.com/) - Saved: March 21, 2019 (2019-03-21T20:30:23Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f13a2a00da8b/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f13a2a00da8b.json ## What Jamie wrote This is one of those counter-intuitive revelations. When I read [Thinking Fast and Slow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow) it was filled with this kind of stuff. > … a growing body of research in psychology and neuroscience suggests that believing in meritocracy makes people more selfish, less self-critical, and even more prone to acting in discriminatory ways. Totally the opposite of what one would desire to happen. > They found that, in companies that explicitly held meritocracy as a core value, managers assigned greater rewards to male employees over female employees with identical performance evaluations. This preference disappeared where meritocracy was not explicitly adopted as a value. That is surprising. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Appears in - [WT98: Weekly Thing #98 / Mar 23, 2019](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/98/), Notable Links 📌 ## Same host - [How to feel happier](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ea8db5f25d5a/) (fastcompany.com, October 17, 2018) - [Executive coach: 7 secrets to lasting career satisfaction](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/5e25279ffe19/) (fastcompany.com, February 10, 2019) - [How to get better at estimating your time](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/285289d12b26/) (fastcompany.com, March 7, 2019) - [Privacy's not an abstraction](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f8993af4c053/) (fastcompany.com, March 28, 2019) - [I left the ad industry because our use of data tracking terrified me](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/1fc7dafea9c9/) (fastcompany.com, June 13, 2019) ## Saved the same week - [countdown](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/973848cca7ff/) (github.com, March 21, 2019) - [One-third of the web! — WordPress](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a00205933392/) (wordpress.org, March 21, 2019) - [Crypto Canon – Andreessen Horowitz](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/61924b9d5a14/) (a16zcrypto.com, March 21, 2019) - [Executive Presence when declining a meeting](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/7dec1ebdd0a8/) (blogchangemasters.com, March 21, 2019) - [Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years — Krebs on Security](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9f6923490694/) (krebsonsecurity.com, March 21, 2019) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.fastcompany.com/40510522/meritocracy-doesnt-exist-and-believing-it-does-is-bad-for-you