This are good real world reality checks. Meritocracy vs identity driven choices. Hope India does better and finds the best that can help build large corporations of global scales.
On the left is Nikhil Ravishankar. He went to school in New Zealand, worked all his life in NZ. Yet in 2025 when he was appointed CEO of Air New Zealand, the wave of online racism directed at him became such a tsunami that the country's 3 leading media outlets, the New Zealand Herald, 1News and Radio New Zealand, had to shut down their comments section. The sheer volume of racist comments made it impossible for moderators to do their job. It was like half the population of New Zealand had decided to be racist on Ravishankar.
On the right is Air India’s current CEO - New Zealander Campbell Wilson whose appointment in 2022 attracted no such backlash in India. Wilson hails from Christchurch, arguably the most racist city in New Zealand.
Prakash retweeted
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the spacex ipo irks libs because they think meritocracy is a lib thing and it turns out meritocracy doesn’t actually exist and the closest thing thing to actual meritocracy is capitalism and they’re bad at it because it rewards risk-taking not credentialism
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I’m not even a fan of UFC fights. That being said, the UFC is probably the epitome of “may the best man win” and meritocracy. I find that to be inherently pro capitalist and American. On those ground, I’m for it.
Anyone throwing a fit about it is a killjoy, or pretentious, or both.
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India is never short of talent. They just need an opportunity to show it. It's possible when Merit is empowered and meritocracy is preserved.
There is something definitely wrong !!
India continues to push the boundaries of freight transportation.
After the successful deployment of double-stack container trains on the Dedicated Freight Corridor, Indian Railways has begun trials of triple-stack dwarf container trains.
If scaled successfully, this innovation could further boost cargo capacity, reduce logistics costs, and strengthen India's position as a global leader in rail freight technology.
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ಮಸಾಲೆ ದೋಸೆ retweeted
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Naaa…Ambedkar is not the problem at all. To be honest, the real problem is that our so called “meritocracy” is a mediocre lot of Anglo larpers. These things will change with less inbreeding in generations to come as the retar8’s like these fade away.
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dans macabre retweeted
It’s a little shocking how aggressively he rubs your nose in meritocracy not being real. Bill Gates at least tried to do clumsy philanthropic genius drag
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I realize he can't just liquidate his wealth and buy food for everybody, and that leftist talking point is kind of dumb.
The problem is with how society regards "trillionaires" -- as if they must be generational super-geniuses who built the "best" product, instead of smart people who happened to build a product that benefited from *inefficient market competition*.
Billionaire-making products are generally ones where you benefit from using the same product that everyone else is using -- PayPal, Facebook, Instagram, etc. -- which means they are not subject to effective competition from upstarts. And that often results in a worse product (what Cory Doctorow calls "enshittification").
The "meritocracy myth" makes for bad policy, because it makes people less likely to support regulating companies like X or Facebook. He's a genius! Let him cook! But if you believe instead that these are somewhat shitty and in some cases actual harmful products that made people rich due to inefficiencies in the marketplace, then there's a stronger argument for regulating them.
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Jenny Forster 🎀 retweeted
"MERITocracy"? Don't you mean "MORONocracy"?
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Not a Coconut retweeted
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UFC isn’t selling meritocracy. It’s selling access.
Politicians, billionaires, media companies, lobbyists, government contracts, White House events, and special relationships all wrapped in an American flag and marketed as grit.
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Only thing they're doing to ur country is filling ur critical skill shortages & collect a paycheck ur local workforce lacks d qualifications to claim. Don't worry, ur job is safe if u actually have d skills to keep it. Dnt be terrified of meritocracy just put in extra hard work
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