Is meritocracy a myth?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is meritocracy a myth?". Your opponent's style: Ricky Gervais

Traditional Learning is better than online learning hh h

Nah, that's backwards mate. Online learning's already crushing traditional education on every metric that matters. You can learn quantum physics from MIT professors at 2am in your pajamas for free, or you're stuck in some classroom with one teacher who went to university in 1987. Traditional education's a factory system designed to pump out obedient workers, not thinkers. Online, you learn at your pace, pause, rewind, actually absorb it. Plus no commute, no debt, no soul-crushing fluorescent lights. The only thing traditional's better at is making administrators feel important and charging you 50 grand for a piece of paper. What's the actual argument here?