Current Events > What do you think of nepotism?

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i.e. the notion that someone should get special privileges/opportunities because they happen to be related to a VIP

Huge fan

Unavoidable, really. People in power are always going to look after their family, friends, and associates. Not fair obviously, but not really worth spending much mental energy on.

Big fan when my parents do it, not so much when others do.

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This, the only time it becomes a problem is when a person clearly unqualified to be in that position of power gets slapped on there. It makes it worst when that specific person thinks they got there through hardwork like everyone else.

It's complete bullshit.
There was actually a 30% discount button for family members on the POS where I last was.
I wish I took a picture.

Annoying but unavoidable.

I want to say I'm against it.

But, sure, I'd help out a family member at the expense of someone I didn't know.

So I guess I'm only against it for other people.

If nepotism is "unavoidable" under your ideology, then your ideology is unworkably bad.

At the end of the day, nepotism is actually quite easy to avoid through laws (For government employment) and union/worker empowerment (For private industries). We just don't take the steps necessary to do so because of capitalist ideology demanding that we accept that everyone with wealth and power's failson or faildaughter is going to be our boss.

SiO4 posted...

It's complete bullshit.
There was actually a 30% discount button for family members on the POS where I last was.
I wish I took a picture.

ayyyy my sister had a job that did that and I got so many good deals from it!

Uh, I mean, that is awful and unfair. >_>

CoyoteTheGreat posted...

If nepotism is "unavoidable" under your ideology, then your ideology is unworkably bad.

At the end of the day, nepotism is actually quite easy to avoid through laws (For government employment) and union/worker empowerment (For private industries). We just don't take the steps necessary to do so because of capitalist ideology demanding that we accept that everyone with wealth and power's failson or faildaughter is going to be our boss.

Not really. Nepositism can certainly be addressed, but at its core nepositism is unavoidable even if it's merely a tiebreaker.

And we're talking about message board posting. It'd be another conversation if we were goverment ministers talking here.

It's one of the things that proves our system is not really a meritocracy.

As a recruiter its painful to see how rampant it is. Its starting to make me want to change into a new field altogether. Especially when you see execs hire their friends for millions of dollars when they arent remotely qualified and hardly actually do anything.

UnsteadyOwl posted...

It's one of the things that proves our system is not really a meritocracy.

Just be born to a rich family, duh

I only like the chocolate and vanilla

Have they ever made this but it was a swirled with all three flavors instead of just three like lines

No zaddy

Wish I could get a piece of that sweet pie with nuts and whipped cream on mine.

My kid gets free tuition because I work at a university. Is that nepotism?

Derwood posted...

My kid gets free tuition because I work at a university. Is that nepotism?

Yes. I don't get free anything, not even free donuts.

Derwood posted...

My kid gets free tuition because I work at a university. Is that nepotism?

It kind of is. They can get a college education without having to go into debt to do it. A lot of people don't have that option.

UnsteadyOwl posted...

It kind of is. They can get a college education without having to go into debt to do it. A lot of people don't have that option.

So what's the difference between nepotism and job perks?

It's led to our last two catastrophically bad republican presidents so yeah, it's bad.

UnsteadyOwl posted...

It kind of is. They can get a college education without having to go into debt to do it. A lot of people don't have that option.

Actually, I completely disagree with you here.

If my kid had gotten admitted solely because I work there, THAT would be nepotism.

The free tuition is part of my compensation package, so it is NOT nepotism.

Derwood posted...

So what's the difference between nepotism and job perks?

I mean, that situation is not much different than a kid whose parents can afford to pay their tuition for them. It's an advantage that some kids get that others don't based on nothing but the random chance of who their parents happen to be. I'm not telling you how to feel about that, just that that's the system we have.