Again I argue that merit and expertise (aka professionalism) are not evils in and of themselves but only when they serve as facades or euphemisms for actual evils like corruption, injustice, and exploitation. We don’t all have to always work for the good of all, either. I prefer appropriate and reciprocal checks and balances between individual and collective interests, allowing a dynamic tension/equilibrium among diverse interests rather than superimposing static or excessive up-front design. Corrections can then be added only as needed to prevent imbalance (inequity) from exceeding desired limits. Distributed trial and error, with appropriate empirical feedback, can often beat up-front design and top-down command and control.

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