{"id":83578,"date":"2025-11-11T14:44:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/doha-debates-is-earned-success-an-illusion\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T14:44:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:44:05","slug":"doha-debates-is-earned-success-an-illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/doha-debates-is-earned-success-an-illusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Doha Debates: Is earned success an illusion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is success really earned, or is meritocracy an illusion?<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re told that hard work pays off and talent rises to the <!--more--> top. But do we all really start from the same point? Around the world, debates continue over whether success is determined by ability and effort or by race, geography and class.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of @DohaDebates, host Dareen Abughaida is joined by Daniel Markovits, Bryan Caplan, Poornima Luthra and Parag Khanna, alongside students from Qatar Foundation\u2019s Education City and beyond, for a majlis-style debate to explore whether meritocracy creates equal opportunity or reinforces inequality.<\/p>\n<p>The views expressed in this episode are the guests\u2019 own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera\u2019s editorial stance. Visit the @DohaDebates YouTube channel for the extended version. <\/p>\n<p>#DohaDebates #AlJazeera #Meritocracy #Equality #Success #Privilege #Opportunity #Diversity #Equity #Inclusion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is success really earned, or is meritocracy an illusion? We\u2019re told that hard work pays off and talent rises to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}