[_arvin]

Hopefully not for long. Change usually happens when our hands are forced

[recursive]

What's a better metric to be judged on than merit?

[AlexandrB]

It's not that merit is bad. It's that money is often used as a proxy for merit. If you have lots of money a common default assumption is that you earned that money through merit of some kind.

So you have phrases like: "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?"

[JohnFen]

Money != merit

[smoldesu]

So we slap Microsoft's hand for trying to make people use their (free) browser, and let Apple continue to print money by monopolizing software and content distribution on their hardware? I think we just need more stringent consumer protections in general, but there's a slim chance of that happening when you're as much of a CIA/FBI lapdog as Apple.