<p>our entire society is debating that - </p>
<p>[healthcare</a> for the undeserving - Google Search](<a href=“healthcare for the undeserving - Google Search”>healthcare for the undeserving - Google Search)</p>
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<p>The whole debate about healthcare reform, the budget, etc is pervaded with the issue, and I think its the unspoken subtext of any debate about status and who gets what goodies in our society (which, ultimately, is the complaint of the author of the article in the OP)</p>
<p>I am not particularly interested in the rationality of your clients. As I said (or at least meant to imply), this kind of remuneration is often “economically rational” and market driven. (I think there are some cases within large organizations where it is not - and while there are certainly clients who are non optimal in their buying of consulting services that are overvalued due to the selling skills of the consultant, but there are plenty of consulting services that are worth every cent or more of their cost, and not knowing you, I will assume you are in the latter). </p>
<p>My point is that young people frustrated about glass ceiling, or bamboo ceilings or whatever have more POV’s to choose from then A. This is unjust cause us folks with higher IQs should get be in the top 1% thats getting all the goodies or B. Suck it up, its the folks with the high “alternative intelligences” who are in the top 1% getting all the goodies, and they deserve it. </p>
<p>A better approach would be that since “meritocracy” is to a considerable degree illusory, lets consider reordering our society without the notion that the way to make it more just is to make it more meritocratic, but that to make it more egalitarian (in RESULTS) is the way to make it more just.</p>