SKILLSOCRACY

A Skillsocracy is a form of government or organizing structure where the skillset of the position is the determining factor. In a Skillsocracy a person’s fitness for a position is determined by the culmination of the skills that person can demonstrate and their mastery within those skills.

Skillsocracy is a stricter kind of meritocracy: it rewards demonstrated skill rather than achievements, which can be bought with favoritism, deals and corruption. (The word “meritocracy” was popularized by Michael Young’s satire *The Rise of the Meritocracy*, 1958.) In a Meritocracy, people can climb the political ladder through political favoritism, deals, and corruption for which each climb is considered an achievement enforcing a feedback loop.

In a Skillsocracy you either possess the skills or you do not. Among those who do, levels of competency and mastery are the deciding factor. Supporting skills are weighed against one another and the culmination can determine climbing the political ladder. One of the similarities, but also a departure, between a Meritocracy and a Skillsocracy, is in testing.

Just as one who is looking to fill a position at a company, in a Skillsocracy each position requires a skillset. Just like in a job interview one is given a series of tests. The results of that test will vary depending on the person. Other supporting skills will be weighed in the judgment of the position just as with any job. As with any job interview the hidden skill that must be assessed is, “does this person possess the competency and drive to learn.”

The social hierarchy of a person should not come into the decision-making process. Where a person went to college should not come into the decision-making process. Were one to find mass groupings, for example, all people in similar positions all went to Yale, the people should find the process suspect. If the process is found competent then academia needs to be examined as no place of learning should hold a monopoly on a skillset.

Under a Skillsocracy education should be given to all. It is simply paid for by a lifetime payroll tax of 6%. This modest tax would bring in at the start roughly three-quarters of a trillion dollars. 6% is $6 out of every $100 or $6,000 from someone making $100,000 a year. This $6,000 is comparable to what many graduates pay on their loans each year.

The downside to a Skillsocracy is that for some positions there could be elitism. You could see presidents of governments or senators out of reach of the regular citizen. This is why education should be paid for by the citizens through this payroll tax. Once you make education and skill attainment broadly accessible, it levels the playing field and forces higher standards enacted by the elite. These higher standards force people to strive more.

This feedback loop forces society and industry to evolve at a faster pace. As the citizenry becomes more educated different questions are asked, those problems are solved, and different solutions to existing problems are enacted.

Progressives who see that all gender biology is equal, are engaging in biases as previously discussed, but also have to contend with the biological fact that all people are made differently down to the level of grey matter in your brain. Some people have an aptitude for learning while others do not. Most of these loud voices come from places of elitism in academia, media, or gated communities from thrones of altruism with no practical lived experience with the common man or woman.

These insulated people toss objective reality out the window and use confirmation bias in statistics and political ideology as a worldview as a means to show they are better than the plebs of society because if they stepped from their gated communities and borders beyond and interacted with real people, they could see what is hardwired into the human animal. And that’s what they want to change, the human animal. In many regards they just the same as their right-wing counterparts, just a shifted narrative.

These people don’t like a system such as a Skillsocracy because things like race, nationality, gender, and other forms of favoritism, are exposed and the natural state of the world is balanced. Aptitude, drive, perseverance, and natural god-given characteristics, which the individual and society both nurture, are the valued attributes, rather than those that so easily divide people and groups and make victims of them. But the latter takes effort and resourcefulness from the individual. The amount of effort you put in is returned and victimization is no longer a badge of honor or a means of cutting lines.