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Counsel or advise: Never forget that merit, justice, fairness, are mere epistemological constructs. These things can be viewed as ideals, unreachable goods. However, they are fictions. Consider suggesting complete impartiality. Not that no person should be at the top, as would be idealized by an anarchist or communist. Rather, consider that positions in society should not be subject to any merit or inheritance. Mere random selection. Both in politics, as it is in true democracy, and economics, as would be in a new form of economics… Random selection… As a rhetorical strategy you could even argue that random selection is the will of God…

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