There's a great big elephant in the room here called the British class system and private education. Without a meritocratic society we are de facto under-reaching our massive potential. Genuine talent is being held back; mediocrity is being allowed to triumph (I mean, do you really think intellectual pygmies like Cameron and Osborne would be in charge if they'd not lived a life of privilege?). I'd have thought a libetarian would have been with me on this one.
I get that many professions, from law to the media are dominated by those from private schools/Oxbridge, but there are a whole host of very good professions out there that aren't. How many teachers went to Oxbridge for instance?
Pretty much all of the organisations I work with are crying out for talent in whatever way they can get it. I've mentioned previously the dearth of STEM related skills in Britain. I dare say if you're good in that area then an employer wouldn't give a stuff what 'class' you were from.
It's the same in computing. Employers are more interested in your GitHub activity than they are your Bullingdon activity.
.....but I didn't ask you if you knew it was fair. I'm asking for your opinion, not some facts.
Do you think it's fair?
And as I said before, how can I judge a situation I know nothing about? How can you judge whether someone has earned their money in a fair way?
It's not, but I'll let you have your naivety which happens to work in favour of your political persuasion ;-)
If you want to sit in judgement of other folks mate then go ahead
That's quite a statement (and very much a matter of opinion, not fact).
Much as we'd love to, I don't think we'll ever remove failure or mistakes from our lives, and to be honest, we probably shouldn't be striving to do that. Society gets better because we push the boundaries and learn from the mistakes we make.
