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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DVnUHZlAtHv\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Daizy Gedeon (@daizygedeon)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap is-cnvs-dropcap-bordered\">Let\u2019s talk about the Great Meritocracy Myth.<\/p>\n<p>In a room full of Oxford undergraduates\u2014the \u201c\u201dbest and brightest\u201d\u201d\u2014Yale Professor Daniel Markovits just dropped a truth bomb that should make every elite institution tremble. While American schools like Yale struggle with \u201c\u201dcorrupt\u201d\u201d admissions and legacy preferences, Oxford prides itself on being \u201c\u201dclean.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But here is the catch: 80% of those students still come from extreme privilege. Why? Because merit isn\u2019t just about talent and effort. It\u2019s about INVESTMENT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPractice doesn\u2019t make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.\u201d When the elite spend $75,000 a year on a child\u2019s education while the average child gets $12,000, the \u201c\u201drace\u201d\u201d is over before it even begins. It\u2019s not about who is smarter; it\u2019s about who was trained better.<\/p>\n<p>We are living in a world where the top 1% outnumbers the entire bottom half at the world\u2019s most prestigious universities. This isn\u2019t a failure of the system\u2014it\u2019s the system working exactly as designed. It\u2019s a way for the rich to launder their wealth into \u201c\u201dmerit\u201d\u201d so they can say they \u201c\u201dearned\u201d\u201d their spot.<\/p>\n<p>#OxfordUnion #DanielMarkovits #Meritocracy<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/649232672_18538837684069100_1093981811564319937_n.jpg\" style=\"width:100%!important;height:auto!important;  object-fit: fill!important;  text-align: center!important;  display: flex;\n  justify-content: center;\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><br \/>\nEnglish Script:<br \/>\nIf I look around this room of Oxford undergraduates, 40% of you were privately educated in a country in which 7% of students have private educations. 80% of you come from meaningful social and economic privilege. As we heard a moment ago at my university, Yale, there are more students from the top 1% of the income distribution than from the entire bottom Half. Now, my university&#8217;s admissions process is corrupt, and failures of meritocracy might explain it. But Oxford is not corrupt. You can&#8217;t buy a place here. There is no meaningful legacy preference. And yet, nevertheless, you&#8217;re all rich and you all come from privileged backgrounds or almost all. Now, why is that? The reason is straightforward. Famous US baseball player once said, practice doesn&#8217;t make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. Meritocracy in fact, is not, as we just heard that advantage turns on effort and talent. It turns on effort and talent. And one more thing, investment. It turns on how much is invested in developing a child&#8217;s talent, using their own efforts, and the investment that different kinds of children get in meritocratic societies is absolutely enormously different. In the United States, the richest private schools spend over $75,000 per pupil per year on educating their children in a society in which public schools, on average, spend about $12,000. In this country, the richest private schools spend over 30,000 pounds a year educating their children. These massive investments produce massive differences in childhood achievement, not because of legacy admissions, but because when you get trained, you get good at things. And the result, therefore, is that a meritocracy, when it works as designed, favors those whose parents are in a position best to invest in them, who have the money, who have the skills, and who have the free energy and space to do so. 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