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What makes you think that any form of societal advancement exists within a hierarchical framework?
In fact, destruction of hierarchy not only improves individual social outcomes on the whole, but it improves desirable outcomes for systems, and it improves overall systemic resiliency as power/decision-making is distributed, not concentrated.
I would argue that any movement to enforce hierarchy "merit-based" or not, is inherently regressive.
The importance of hierarchy is cultural, but all social animals display hierarchy in some respect. Those that are driven to this ends are valid and need an outlet too. This isn't political hierarchy it is social hierarchy, and the most complex social creature in the known universe. You and I are not going to like the full spectrum of reality in the complete picture, but that is the point. Reality is not simple or structured in some rigid binary.