Meritocracy > Justice
Only functional alternative to meritocracy is nepotism. Not justice.
I take a completely computational view of the universe. Which is inherently a bottom-up approach. We start with the agents (read: humans) and move upwards to higher abstractions like organization, culture and State.
Agents have terminal goals. And they transact with other agents to achieve their goals. They also negotiate and interact with each other to …