Naked meritocracy will destroy and bury Singaporeans alive!

 Some quarters are chirping merrily about meritocracy in Singapore and some even really believe in this myth as the best thing for Singapore. Such unthinking people, Singapore has a lot of them, even calling themselves western educated elites, benefiting from restrained meritocracy to be where they are today, but breathing naked meritocracy every day, probably because they did not have to live with the consequences. They would be all dead and gone.

What is naked meritocracy? This is a path taken when the best in the world should be given the best and top jobs based on one criteria, merit. This, in practice, can be seen in many American and western companies, when foreigners were employed to take over the top jobs and also the whole companies. Yes, naked meritocracy has no constraints, only the best would be hired to take over everything the predecessors built. 

Caveat, the truth is that it is not the case. Naked meritocracy only applies in an ideal situation, when nothing else matters, citizenship, race, religion etc etc do not matter. In other words, naked meritocracy will be practised when the daft are in charge. In practice, this did not apply as the top dog would dictate how naked is the meritocracy. The top dog can bring in his whole village and family but give a superficial treatment to meritocracy to deceive the daft and the unthinking that it is all about meritocracy.

In an ideal state of naked meritocracy advocated by the shallow and unthinking, like some in Singapore, every top position in Singapore, in the govt or in the private or commercial sectors, will be replaced by a foreign talent with the best talent for the job.  Singapore has only about 3 million citizens. How are they going to compete, in naked talents, with the best from 7 billion talents out there? For every top job in Singapore, there will be millions of top talents that will be better and smarter than a Singaporean and must be hired over the Singaporeans. Statistically, all the top jobs would be given to a foreign talent, real or fake. All the rest of the senior positions below the top job would also be taken up by foreign talents with millions of talents to spare.

Naked meritocracy is like digging our own grave, voluntarily, willingly and stupidly, and saying it is good for Singapore to continue to be the best city state in the world, minus the original Singaporeans. Naked meritocracy is an existential threat to the existence of Singaporeans.

Who is yelping for naked meritocracy? Who is yelping for meritocracy that is good for Singapore but will bury every Singaporean alive? In reality, no country would practise naked meritocracy unless they suffered from the 'Stupidity has no cure' disease.

Looking at the growing number of Singaporean graduates being unemployed or underemployed, it is a sign that naked meritocracy is gaining traction in Singapore. As they said, the fools would soon part with their money. In Singapore's case, the fools would soon part with their inheritance...and country. And even pledge to defend their country with their lives.