Word: meritable
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...anyone suggesting that the people who drooled over her in the first place were in the wrong, Kournikova was the one chastised for profiting from it. It was essentially a cop-out to blame women for the fact that men often evaluate them based on looks rather than merit...
...Women, however, should take every opportunity to capitalize on this flaw in the system. The world is not equitable or merit-based in any sense of the word, but it is the responsibility of the propagators of such inequities—not the objects—to correct them. And as long as these problems exist, one might as well milk them. Sports fans, instead of buying into the stigmas attached to attractive athletes, should applaud those who have seized their opportunities. And the same goes for the working world. This is not to say women don?...
...However, capitalizing on an inequity—whether it’s superior looks, affirmative action, or your boss’s love for blondes—presents the problem of casting doubt over one’s true merit or skill. But we must remember that these situations present opportunities to smash the stigma of doubt through your performance. If someone wants to believe you don’t deserve that job, that fame, or that money, you can prove them wrong by being nothing short of impeccable at what you do. Of course, some will still hold onto...
...federal tax system magnifies this effect and robs the government of money that it could use to further the greater public good. Rather than trying to manage where the rich give their money by determining which charities are “truly deserving” and which should not merit tax deductible gifts, the government should simply cut its subsidy to donations by the rich and use the additional tax revenue to fund charities that directly help the poor. After all, non-profit organizations in low income neighborhoods are primarily sustained by government aid, not philanthropy. The good that could...
...Should we allow the really wealthiest families in America to send their children to Harvard for free?” he asks. “I think even those families wouldn’t agree with that.”Bok also laments the rise of merit scholarships in institutions of higher education today, albeit outside the Ivy League.“Just because US News & World Report bases rankings on things like average SAT scores, schools are competing for phony prestige, trying to get better students, and using their financial aid to get it,” he says.Even...