Do you think the world would be better if we had a regulated meritocratic government?

EDIT PER ADDITIONAL COMMENTS:

Your statement that the system would be regulated makes me reiterate my original questions (with a twist). What are the regulations? Who gets to make them? Who does the enforcing? How do they do the enforcing? What methods are in place to ensure that those who do the enforcing do not themselves become corrupt?

This is the problem with Utopian views. They are always dependent on people who can only be trusted in the short term. History shows us that there is no system which can guarantee virtue. All systems must be run by people; and in the end, simple human nature always can be counted on to undo the best laid plans.

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Of course we would all fare better under meritocratic government. The trick is how do we achieve it, and who makes the determination of "Merit."

This was the whole question that Plato undertook to resolve in "The Republic." His answer was the "Philosopher Kings."

But there's no way to guarantee that you always get virtue. It really does all boil down to these questions: What is merit; and who gets to make the determination of merit?

A meritocracy would quickly turn into an elitist and totalitarian state. Those who meet the "merit" requirements would be at the "top of the food chain" and deciding that others are not rational or informed exclude them from the political process.

The solution is broaden the type of government where individuals and governments have rights, but that they also have obligations.

Any sort of government is open to abuse if the people let the poeple in power abuse the system.

One advantage of old fashioned royalty is that there were just a few who held power to abuse, and wealth was kept together and not dissipated.

No system is perfect.

No I don't think like that. Many of the world problems created / being created by meritocratic selfish people only. In the democratic majority of people should be human beings by heart & mind and follow virtuous path. Then we can have good persons to lead us as they will come up from with in us only. All of us may be with few exception are in human form with animal characters only and hence our leader will be like that only as we could not get persons from unknown world.

We should cultivate our mind and purify it and realize the Truth and many of our fellow beings follow the right path as our religions have failed in that respect.

I am not really sure what you mean, but I think the government should be hands-off, maybe the public should be better informed, but if you are suggesting they shouldn't have a say in decisions such as elections, I don't think I like that idea.

You mean that all those people running our country might really be morons? I thought it was just an act, to keep us off our guard.

anarchy is the only solution