The balance between merits inherited by works and talents and freedom of all individuals cannot be solved in a society where EDUCATION is not the center of the social life ...Economic production could NO MORE be the center of social life especially in the near future while robots will take charge of materials needs......
Economy with A. I. cannot be based on conception of market inherited by Bernard Mandeville and Adam Smith and after that of Hayek and Friedman....Our actual notion of economy and its place are completely outdated...Read Mandeville to understand...Do you know him? He was a very clever but machiavellian mind who influence all those who comes after... He was a genius the Freud of economy and clever than Marx or Smith...But his times of influence has now reach his end...We need a more conscious understanding of ourselves economically and politically and spiritually ....Look at what Hayek said of Mandeville whom he called "our master of us all":
https://www.maggs.com/dr-bernard-mandeville-lecture-on-a-master-mind_231842.htm
In the times to come our effort in education will decide for a large part of the future of our societies...We live no more in Mandeville world...
Then i am not against merits, but i am a proponent of a spiritual education not only the development of skills...
Learning how to think for example dont begin with only science but also litterature and history, philosophy and manual works....i call that a spiritual education...
And the basis of any enduring civilization could not be based on merits ONLY but on education first... Merits are consequence of education if not, they are inherited and transmitted by a reigning class...I dont want to live in an ant technocratic colony inspired by a new disciple of Mandeville who know more than Orwell and Huxley centuries before them...
Is it not surprizing that almost no one know Mandeville?
That reveal what i call an education problem....
Science the limited way we understand it now is not synonymus of knowledge...Only a part of it....