http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:00:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/04/24/why-do-we-fetishise-meritocracy-when-most-success-is-down-to-luck/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/04/24/why-do-we-fetishise-meritocracy-when-most-success-is-down-to-luck/#comments Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:38:57 +0000 James Bloodworth http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=23509 Market forces are the basis of political liberty. Despite the biggest economic crisis for a generation, most of us still believe it. We might get slapped around the face by the system from time to time – by the increasing frequency of rough sleepers we encounter on the way to work, or when we read in the paper about pensioners who can no longer afford to heat their homes – but on the whole, as a society we seldom question the fundamental soundness of the free-market anymore. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/04/24/why-do-we-fetishise-meritocracy-when-most-success-is-down-to-luck/feed/ 64