Former Senator from Nebraska finished his first of four years as president of University of Florida and decided to call it quits under the fig leaf to take care of his family, but continue with his million dollar a year compensation as President emeritus. This week it came out that he spent $1.3 million in catering in that truncated university presidency that is 3 times what the previous president spent on average for the 8 years prior to the pandemic. Failing up is once again not for the everyman, just the few people who are the ones that are intrinsically worthy because they are members of the elite. Why are they worthy to be members of the elite, they are the ones who given the station in life where failing up is tolerated, of course. This circular logic is the underpinning of the satirical term meritocracy when coined by Michael Young's The Rise of the Meritocracy, but that term has lost lost all of its intended meaning and now is the sincere definition of deserving of one's position because of effort.
