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Quality or Equality?

An argument for competence

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Frank Wright
Jan 11, 2023
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Here is a longer form piece on the choice presented by contemporary ideas of social justice. A shorter version was published today on TCW.

A crisis of competence in all our institutions is fuelled by a selective bias presented as virtue. What is meant by equality? It is a concept which excludes ability from the preferment for advantage in our public and professional lives.

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