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The World Needs Experts, Merit, and the Related Inequality from Them
Experts should not be disregarded because of the work they put in — quite the opposite, in fact.
I do not consider myself an expert at anything.
Nope, I am not an expert. Experienced? To be sure. Knowledgeable? Absolutely. A master? Maybe, but only because what mastery I have isn’t the end-all-be-all, and I am still learning/developing/growing/evolving.
The number of things any of us can know and learn are uncountable. Even with everything you might know — there are far more things you don’t. And this is true of everyone.
How many languages do we speak on this planet? I doubt that anyone knows them all. Science, philosophy, art, you name it — there is more to be known and learned than we know and learn.
Some people, however, put a tremendous amount of focus, energy, and time into a given topic. They learn as much as they can — to the point where they become a foremost authority on the subject matter.
That is an expert. Someone who knows a lot about the topic they focus on. To gain that place, they kept on studying the subject matter, finding new evidence, learning, evolving, and so on.
