You cannot prove meritocracy doesn&#x27;t work. Fortunately you don&#x27;t have to. The burden of proof is required for positive claims.<p>We don&#x27;t have a lot of evidence meritocracy works. We have several pieces of evidence suggesting that it, in fact, didn&#x27;t serve github very well. The fact there was a sexual harassment lawsuit with a barely kept secret about a whole group of women bound by arbitration and non-disparage agreements is probably evidece it doesn&#x27;t.<p>The sad part, most people will never really understand how much Tom sacrificed to protect his friends during his final days there.