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  Altria at 03:52 PM JST - 22nd July

  How about a merit-based system for the gov't?

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  niku at 06:18 PM JST - 22nd July

  no thanks. it wouldnt work

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  medievaltimes at 06:39 PM JST - 22nd July

  Merit-based systems should be limited to areas in which competition is known to be effective in raising workers’ morale, the ministry said, adding that evaluation standards need to be more transparent.

  Its hard for many people to accept, especially in Japan...not all people are the same. Some have better skills than others, regardless of age. We are not all equal (which is basically the opposite of the Japanese way of thinking).

  Forced respect based on age is borderline bullying. True respect is earned and based on merits.

  Instead of trying to get everyone to be the same, try to appreciate/respect others if they are different(even if you dont fully understand it).

  If your skills dont match up with everybody else, maybe start a new line of work. You will be happier and so will your former employer.

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  Gyudon at 10:13 PM JST - 22nd July

  A merit-based system for every level of government would be a utopia unprecedented in the hisotry of mankind. Imagine politicians being held responsible for the inane policies they implement that ultimately ruin people's lives, stangnate economies, cause bubbles and the subsiquent recessions that follow... Let's fire the lot of them and reduce government to the basic mandates of protecting people & abiding by the constitutios that make up the fouding rules of the country they are elected to govern.

  Gee, that doesn't work with despotist socialist totalitarian regemes. Let's see if we can gather together enough cajones to get rid of them too?

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  sf2k at 03:22 AM JST - 23rd July

  i don't see how a merit system would work if no worker ever can give themselves merit. Merit systems in a society are also societies that include high levels of self-employed, aka motivated people in a particular work area.

  If you don't like you're job and you're just sitting around for a paycheque, you either slug it out or you go do something else. I just don't see Japanese working society, in spite of all it's improvements, working in this manner on a large scale.

  This article describes merit as job performance only and reflects the opinion of Corporate Merit, not from the direction of merit the person provides corporations. How does this process then not come off as being even more faceless since there is such an extreme lack of alternatives to corporations?

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