[khasan222]

What I believe they’re trying to say is that it already has not been a meritocracy, and because of human nature that stain will always be there somewhat at least this is a attempted washing of the stain

[lotsofpulp]

I specifically wrote “less meritocratic” to imply that meritocracy is a spectrum. Obviously, humans are currently unable to achieve perfectly meritocratic institutions, but it is a spectrum where we can attempt to be more meritocratic than less.