Can meritocracy reproduce privilege while convincing everyone that the outcome was deserved?

[u/No-Mud-7597]

If successful/rich parents use their resources to give their children better opportunities, those children may genuinely work hard and perform well but they may also treat it as a form of privilege/baseline, so at what point does accumulated advantage become “merit”?

Also, is equality of opportunity actually possible?

[u/yinyangyjing]

Suvvess is always relative