 As noted, Hayek’s critique of social justice is more specifically a critique of centrally planned distribution according to merit. He thinks a merit czar would be intolerable. However, what Hayek found nightmarish about this vision clearly had more to do with an abhorrence of central planning than of the idea that it would be good to have a way of rewarding merit. If Hayek is right that there is no place for centralized decisions about meritoriousness in a good society, then, contra Hayek, the implication is not that merit does not matter but precisely that it does (Hayek 1976, 64). The problem with merit czars in the world we know, Hayek seems to assume, is that, in a merit-based system, if you cannot prove you deserve G, that licenses merit czars to redistribute from the less to the more deserving. The point is crucial not because it refutes Hayek but because it reveals the exact nature of Hayek’s real concern. Hayek’s core concern is not the mirage ofthinking merit does matter, but the mirage of thinking entitlement  doesn’t.[10]