{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcapitalisnt.com%2Fepisodes%2Fthe-cost-and-promise-of-meritocracy-revisited-XivNFMN7","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Revisiting The Meritocracy Debate With Adrian Wooldridge And Michael Sandel","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/2e7c76ad-7ecc-479b-8749-f0cb2f4f2dc5/448252be-b0dd-4ca9-94e2-d1edc241d7ba/capitalisn_t_updated_s2_v3.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/dc20c027-98cb-42ef-8f47-b5e9861e3421\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Revisiting The Meritocracy Debate With Adrian Wooldridge And Michael Sandel\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"For the beginning of the year, we are revisiting two previous yet timely conversations, with Adrian Wooldridge (author of \"The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World\") and Michael Sandel (author of \"The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good\").\n\nWith them, Bethany and Luigi discuss whether meritocracy creates a better world for everyone, or if it creates massive inequality. Wooldridge makes the nuanced case that while meritocracy is generally beneficial, we as a society need to recapture the notion of merit from the elites. Sandel, on the other hand, argues in a nuanced way that essentially the problem with meritocracy is not the failure to live up to the ideal, but the idea itself."}