Okay, you definitely didn’t read my comment if that’s what you think it was. Let me sum it up for you:

• A person’s merit is subjective.
• Judging merit based on subjective values will bring in biases and corruption.
• Judging merit based on objective values is impossible, and will need to be a simplification.
• In either case, people will game the system to raise their value, regardless of whether they actually contribute anything of merit.
• Any system will become outdated VERY quickly, as society is always changing.
• Capitalism only judges the acquisition of capital, which is not a merit.
• A person can cheat literally any system if they try hard enough.

I explained all of that without a single anecdote.