Let me tell you how frustrating it is when daddy’s kids get them into these internships that many of us have worked our tails off to be at. Some of these kids don’t know what a valuation even is. This is just brutal. Am I wrong for this?
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I mean I guess, but you’ll be better off once you accept that thats just how life is. Some people are born better connected and in better positions, some people get lucky, etc. The world isnt a true meritocracy. Just stress over what you can control because the harder you work the luckier you tend to be. In the future, you would want to help out your kids too.
It’s called nepotism, look it up.
There are many opportunities for non daddy kids to get jobs. You are just not working hard enough and looking to blame someone for being lazy. Source: Housing&Food Stamp Gang
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When people talk about things like this, I always think the following:
- Did the kids deserve this life? Probably not. They just got lucky to be born into this family.
- Did the parent deserve seeing his kids successful and happy? Absolutely. The parent worked hard dreaming that one day his kids won't have to work as hard because he'll be able to support them. It could have been his motivation all along the way - to be able to provide his kids with a great life. And he deserves seeing his kids happy.
What i find funny about this dynamic is that the response to nepotism is always a grudging acceptance yet the response to diversity programs seems to be pure outrage
It makes my blood boil and quite honestly is comical given that most of the people complaining about diversity programs are the ones who benefit from nepotism
I love how there are so many threads bashing diversity recruiting, yet when there's a thread on nepotism, 90% of the replies are "that's how it works" or "who cares" or even "life isn't fair, get used to it". If diversity recruiting is wrong and against the spirit of meritocracy, then so is nepotism, except that one may argue that nepotism is even worse because it doesn't even try to help historically disadvantaged groups