It's called nepotism and our society is entrenched in it. One of my housemates in college was a complete fuck up and failed out of his communications major after 3 years. Communications.
And instead of being forced to struggle and make something of himself from the bottom up, his dad, a silicon valley big shot, pulls strings for him to land a nearly 6 figure starting salary tech job with the company VM Ware. With zero experience in computer science. Zero. 😂
I must've stood in disbelief for several minutes when he first told me. He couldn't even keep a straight face himself as he started laughing and acknowledged the absurdity of failing upwards so tremendously.
I still like the guy and he got clean two years before me and did actually finally straighten himself out and made a good life for himself and his girlfriend since then.
But good lord our nation is seemingly overrun by fuck ups with no experience being handed the keys to the kingdom by their rich CEO fathers.
Reminds me of a real dunce I met once, but he went to one of the most exclusive schools in England. For the money they make sure you get tutored to pass, but even with that he had mediocre grades. Still, despite that, the college name is a pull and he had amazing pay in banking in London for a while. Last I heard of him he was serving a life sentence in Thailand for brutally killing his "girlfriend". Total psychopath he was.
Real talk....I wonder if I were in the same position of the CEO dad, if I would do the same thing...If not in a key position I would probably still have strings pulled to set him up in some cushy made-up position....I mean corporations are full of wasteful spending.....
I want to think I probably would do the right thing and let him struggle...but I'm not sure 100% that would happen....Hopefully I won't have a fuck up...
Lmao you have a good point. I've seen a good handful of dads do this kind of thing for their incompetent sons. You're right though, I would probably want my son to succeed even if I had to pull strings for him.
It's called nepotism and our society is entrenched in it. One of my housemates in college was a complete fuck up and failed out of his communications major after 3 years. Communications.
And instead of being forced to struggle and make something of himself from the bottom up, his dad, a silicon valley big shot, pulls strings for him to land a nearly 6 figure starting salary tech job with the company VM Ware. With zero experience in computer science. Zero. 😂
I must've stood in disbelief for several minutes when he first told me. He couldn't even keep a straight face himself as he started laughing and acknowledged the absurdity of failing upwards so tremendously.
I still like the guy and he got clean two years before me and did actually finally straighten himself out and made a good life for himself and his girlfriend since then.
But good lord our nation is seemingly overrun by fuck ups with no experience being handed the keys to the kingdom by their rich CEO fathers.
So true. Met many myself.
Reminds me of a real dunce I met once, but he went to one of the most exclusive schools in England. For the money they make sure you get tutored to pass, but even with that he had mediocre grades. Still, despite that, the college name is a pull and he had amazing pay in banking in London for a while. Last I heard of him he was serving a life sentence in Thailand for brutally killing his "girlfriend". Total psychopath he was.
our society is not entrenched in it - our society is the least entrenched in the history of the world.
We have it, and it’s bad, but it’s the best it’s ever been as far as nepotism goes.
So it is entrenched in it, just not as much as the rest of the world.
Spot on, as always, bruv
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Real talk....I wonder if I were in the same position of the CEO dad, if I would do the same thing...If not in a key position I would probably still have strings pulled to set him up in some cushy made-up position....I mean corporations are full of wasteful spending.....
I want to think I probably would do the right thing and let him struggle...but I'm not sure 100% that would happen....Hopefully I won't have a fuck up...
Lmao you have a good point. I've seen a good handful of dads do this kind of thing for their incompetent sons. You're right though, I would probably want my son to succeed even if I had to pull strings for him.