Why meritocracy is a LIE... (it's way worse than people realize)

You really must have a really obtuse brain to think the economic elites in capitalist countries are so high up , own so much wealth ( like more than 80 precent of the population ! ) because they have so much more " merit " as human being than the rest of us hoi-polloi ; because they are so much smarter and even much more hard working than the rest of us . Petty bourgeois intellectual defenders of CAPITALISM talk and write as if Karl Marx never published an earth shaking work titled " Das Kapital ". Nothing is more obvious to an honest , politically literate person than that the capitalist system , as Marx analyzed it , is a system of exploitation and oppression of the masses [ One perhaps long forgotten science scholar, J.D. Bernal writes , in his book " Science In History " : " Marx thus demonstrated that capitalism ,far from being a system of natural justice as the classical economists maintained, was one of extortion imposed by arbitrary force. It was the central concept of EXPLOITATION ,which the economists had hidden from themselves , that was to give the explosive force to Marx's teaching ". .... " It was not that workers and peasants had not felt exploited for centuries, it was rather that now they could understand the mechanism through which the exploitation was carried on ". " The implications of Marxism were so repugnant to the ruling bourgeoisie of the time that it is not surprising that for another fifty years all over the world , and until today in a large part of it , they were ignored and rejected by the official exponents of social science . " ( Bernal's book was first published in Great Britain 1954 ) ]