Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. This is a TBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelor and Adrian Waldrich. His new book is The

aristocracy of talent, how meritocracy made the modern world and having described the genius of

brain power finding governance for democracies for prosperity for the modern

world we now come up about what is to be done because the

meritocrats have in some fashion that's very romantic created a condition that is

not unlike royalty or dynasties or created a condition what we're looking at here is it's a meritocracy but it's not based on the land.

Adrian you report that it's based on information gathering how so?

The meritocrats are people who can collect and process and command information better

than everybody else.

And of course in a society that is in an economy that's based above all on on on information.

These people have enormous amounts of power.

They can get this information quickly and they can process it and

manipulate it on a global scale.

So their power as knowledge workers is like the power of old aristocrats,

you know, only more so because they operate on a global scale rather than just on the scale of the local landed estate.

One response to this, one response is moral, to make a moral argument about what is wrong.

At first I came up against this and I thought,

how can you make a moral argument against people who are so well to do?

What would it look like, Adrian, to re- memorialize the meritocrats?

Well, what if you think of the origins of meritocracy in the middle of the

19th century in Britain, what you had at that time was not just a technical solution to a problem of how you

recruit an elite. You had that, you had the idea that you have open competition and you have

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