And more than that not have a different group of upper class later. As had happened always.

I’d rather not go through the churn if no real difference a few years later

True meritocracy had never been implemented in any human society larger than a small village.

It had been partially implemented in several places/times

What we have today is a partially implemented one in middle management, technocrats and engineers.

Where out of touch upper management and owners are the rule. But if I look at any successful company I will find the tech and middle management running it day to day

snopes does not have that in their search results