no shortcuts
Yeah because they spawns 1m from the finish line.
Look, if I were in a privileged position in life, you can bet I’d also do whatever I could to make the same true for my daughters. 100%. I care for them and want them to be prosperous, and if they have kids I’d like them to be in a good position too.
But what really fucks me off is when these people who’ve benefitted from that then go on to act like they’re self-made and didn’t get the help.
Just own it. Say “yeah, my family runs a businesses, and because of that I’m in this good position. I’m really thankful of my parents for doing that for me, I’ve been really fortunate, and I work hard every day in order to show my appreciation for the opportunities that have been made available to me.”
I’d respect the hell out of that, even though there’s still the degree of nepotism there.
The reason they don’t admit that they got a head start is that they actually don’t believe it.
The daughter of a family friend of mine grew up middle class. Her mom was a social worker, her did had an office job. She managed to marry a man who’s the son that’s inheriting his dad’s oil business, worth tens of millions. She is now a housewife / stay at home mom. She now has a city home, a cottage (which is fully a house, just in a more rural location) and a summer home. One of her daughters competes in sailing races (and anybody who knows sailing knows just how expensive that hobby can be), the other is into horse riding.
I’ve asked her what it’s like for her kids to grow up rich, and she doesn’t get it. She doesn’t think she’s rich. She says that there are houses around where she lives that are even bigger than hers, and that her husband works hard. I’m sure that’s true, but she’s still in the top 0.1%. And this is someone who grew up middle class, and should remember what it was like.
I guarantee that most of the kids that come from rich families have no idea what it’s like not to be rich. As a result, they don’t ever consider that it might not be normal to be able to have your dad’s lawyer look over the contracts for your new company free of charge. They never think of how easy they had it to find investors for their company, and how forgiving those investors were. It never occurred to them that during those lean months at the beginning when their company hadn’t yet started generating real revenue, that it was unusual to be able to live in their parents’ spare apartment in the city, and to have dad pay off their credit card.
Honestly you don’t need your family to be rich. A family well-off enough to give you:
- Good financial education
- Doesn’t kick you out at 18 or require rent
- Pays your tuition (maybe not in the US)
- Supporting in your endeavors
- Family loans (not having to pay interest is massive)
Makes a HUGE difference.
My family ran a business…into the ground, because my father could not sit still, and went off to do whatever work.
Claims he is perfectly healthy, is outraged when I mention ADHD.
What I would never understand is how these nepotism babies thinking they achieved something by themselves.
What’s the un-edited version? I want to see how they try to describe how '“hard they worked”
It’s satire. It’s a bunch of typical LinkedIn nonsense (run every morning, read, do yoga, etc) then the bait and switch at the end is that their dad just gave them a multi-six-figure position at an investment firm he runs.
Not sure why they blacked out so much of the post, the original is funny enough.
It has been posted elsewhere recently unredacted and 90% of the comments could not understand that it was satire.
It must be a satire or rage bait at the very least.
No, most nepo babies are really that out of touch with reality. Remember “if you’re homeless just buy a house”.
This kind of satire is a new way to farm engagement on LinkedIn, it’s not even remotely funny after the 100th post like this, but LinkedIn is the worst of all social media so it’s kinda on brand.
Satire just doesn’t exist on Lemmy, does it?
Even when it’s pointed out to you, you still argue.
Poe’s law means that it’s impossible to know for sure.
There’s a lot of loonies on linkedin.
Which also was a satire.
Yeah, and? In order to satire a thing there must be the thing or it makes no sense, right?
Well. Maybe. Too a degree for sure. The conviction need to exists. But this is also a tribal “they vs us” where its not important what they acctualy are. Even if they exists, this misrepresents them and the scale thr issue.
How often did you insult the “just buy a home” girl and wonder how she could be so dumb and out of thougch? Well she wasnt. She don’t exists. Even if nepo babies do.
Also:
If the sea level is rising just sell your beach house.
“To who, Ben? Fucking Aquaman?!
Nonsense, just waterproof it and make it a reverse aquarium!
"What!‽ You can’t afford a holiday skiing in the Alps!! Why don’t you just ask daddy for a bigger allowance?’
I hope this post is. My cousin made a similar post on social media about owning a house. He was ranting that the current generation was lazy and didn’t know how to budget. Everyone should easily be able to buy a house. The house he owned was bought with the money he made by selling his first house which was inherited. Some people are really just that dumb.
or entitled. i have relatives like this and incredibly entitled is how i’d describe them.
While this is most likely rage bait this isn’t far from human self perception.
There were multiple studies on this with similar setups. Eg they’d have students play monopoly and give one of them significantly more cash to start with. Not secretly either. One would think this student would understand that this is an insane advantage but the study found that most of the participants believed that they won by playing well.
So even with the most obvious advantage humans will think that it was their own merit that lead to their success.
I love this study. I quote it a lot. Do you want to be friends?
But “(my dad)” is a dead giveaway.
Ah come on, how dumb can a person be? Even if it was purely american and they picked the dumbest of the dumb, this’d be too dumb.
Well it turns out thinking isn’t necessary, you can just say whatever is the first thing that seems right and move on. 'Merica.
I never thonkd
I remember seeing this post somewhere else and somebody there had said it was satire.
This happens all the time though for real. So it’s safe to assume the story is 100% real, but perhaps it didn’t happen to the person who typed it.
i mean its the shitpost comm
Fair.
Never underestimate how tough it is to have such pressure to be the child of a multi-millionaire and their limited life options.
Marlene Engelhorn was one of the brave ones who could say no to the pressure and broke the abusive generational cycle of being rich.
Ahh, nepotism
Hey there are no shortcuts buddy.
Spoken like a true nepo
I was the fastest sperm and came from the best testicle, I should be rewarded accordingly.
Is linkedin a shitposting site for people in it?
yes. Every now and then a boss o’ mine will make me post to LinkedIn about the company I’m currently working for - so I will write a David Foster Wallace style essay (previous ones include comparing business process automation platforms to different fictional orcs, or what my old mad Scottish housemate making pasta taught me about b2b sales…) until they stop asking.
You should collect them all and get an illustrator. Make a little 50 page ebook. I’d buy it.
Fuckin’ capitalism, eh?
Inspirational
I’m pretty sure everyone who actually posts to linkedin is a cronyboy or nepobaby
Stupid. Just have rich parents.
A few steps to success.
- work hard every day
- skip the avocado toast
- take a small loan of 3 million dollars from your parents
- sell your company before it is nothing worth anymore if you fucked up.
It’s from some funny guy. I don’t know what his job is but his profile’s full of jokes.
Yeah this reads like a joke post to me, mostly because of the “(my dad)” bit where he’d be hiding that fact if he was being serious.
Feckin genius over here
Nepo babies when they take the bus: THERE IS NO BUS.
Nepo baby’s: There is no spoon
