# Michael Young Up: [[Thomas Sowell]] · [[Post Analysis - brivael on Why Musk Is Under Attack (2026-10-24)|post analysis]] (row 24) - British sociologist and Labour policy writer (1915–2002) ◻. He coined "meritocracy" in the satire *The Rise of the Meritocracy* (1958), which warned that a society sorted by IQ-plus-effort would breed a smug elite and a demoralized underclass ◻. - In 2001 he wrote in *The Guardian* that he was "sadly disappointed" by how Tony Blair used the word ◻. - This is relevant because the post's "real meritocracy" uses the word with the opposite charge from its coiner's.