**HEADLINE: MARK CUBAN’S LATEST ‘MERITOCRACY’ APP SPARKS MORAL PANIC: “HE’S REMOVING the HUMAN SOUL FROM WORK”**

HEADLINE: MARK CUBAN’S LATEST ‘MERITOCRACY’ APP SPARKS MORAL PANIC: “HE’S REMOVING THE HUMAN SOUL FROM WORK”

DALLAS, TX – In what critics are calling the “final nail in the coffin of dignity,” billionaire Mark Cuban has unveiled a new AI-powered hiring platform that eliminates human interaction from the job application process entirely. The app, called MeritOnly, uses a cold algorithm to rank candidates based solely on “productive output data” and “predictable profitability,” ignoring all emotional intelligence, personal struggle, or human context.

Moral ethicists are in an uproar.

“This is the societal equivalent of replacing a handshake with a credit score,” said Dr. Helena Vance, a professor of moral philosophy at Georgetown. “Cuban is codifying the idea that a person’s worth is exactly equal to their economic utility. We are teaching a generation that compassion, resilience, and even a bad day at the office are liabilities. This isn’t efficiency—this is the slow death of empathy.”

The app has already been adopted by fifteen Fortune 500 companies, with Cuban touting it as “the ultimate meritocracy.” But critics argue it creates a dystopian landscape where workers are reduced to data points, and where ‘cultural fit’ and ‘second chances’ are seen as soft, inefficient errors in the system.

“Cuban is building a world where you are never allowed to be human,” Vance added. “And if you can’t be human, you can’t have community. And if we lose community, we lose society itself.”

Some users have already reported being rejected by the algorithm after a single “low-productivity” month due to a medical emergency. The hashtag #CubanSoulRemover is trending on X.