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| Towards A Just Social Community： Meritocracy Trap and Its Transcendence |
| MENG Rui-feng |
| School of Marxism,Nankai University,Tianjin, 300350 |
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Abstract The realization of a just social community is the value goal pursued by human beings, and the realization of a just social community depends on sound and reasonable distribution methods and mechanisms. Meritocracy is to distribute of what one deserves according to individual performance, achievements and contributions, and is generally recognized in the social environment where the market mechanism plays a role. This distribution method satisfies people’s legitimate expectations of competition rules, breaks the traditional way of distributing desert based on race, identity, and rank, stimulates people’s enthusiasm for creating social wealth, and improves the efficiency of social development. However, as the primary distribution method dominated by the market mechanism, meritocracy fails to fully consider fairness while improving efficiency, because differences in life starting points result in the accumulation of wealth, resources, and status under the influence of meritocracy. Inequality forms a trap that induces social conflicts, exacerbates the gap between the rich and the poor, and leads to the solidification of classes. A just social community requires both efficiency and fairness in distribution. In practice, redistribution and third distribution can be used to make up for the shortcomings of the meritocracy principle and form a variety of distribution methods. Specifically, we can seek a realistic way to build a just social community from the aspects of the government strengthening the protection of the basic fairness of the starting point, providing multiple opportunities, and improving the social moral responsibility of individuals.
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Received: 07 November 2022
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