You made it to the self made legendary status (1000 earned merit). I enjoyed when I made that, I have to be honest.
Aye. That's the only stat that actually counts if you're bothered about that type of thing. I'm not particularly.
It is telling that you can almost always glean that someone's merit count is zilch or near zilch just by reading them without having to look left. There's a particular, and weirdly consistent, vacuousness out there.