What is the biggest lesson that employment has taught you?

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I learnt meritocracy is a joke long before I discovered that it was literally invented to be a joke.

it's the same story of 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' too

At least meritocracy makes sense vs the physically impossible bootstraps one.

Also, i thought ghengis khan was all about meritocracy. That and marrying off his daughters and sending the kings to die.

Also, i thought ghengis khan was all about meritocracy.

No... Genghis Khan wasn't a joke. Meritocracy is.