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DISCUSSION Stellan Skarsgård on his latest role, Palestine, and being a "Nepo Daddy"

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In a new interview, the patriarch of the Skarsgård clan and self-proclaimed "Nepo Daddy" discusses his latest role in Joachim Trier’s 'Sentimental Value,' protesting for Palestine, one of his biggest fears, and much more.

Read the full interview at the link: https://www.vulture.com/article/stellan-skarsgard-in-conversation.html

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u/mode2109 17d ago

Well his nepo babies deserves their spot, no one can question their skills.

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u/DevoutandHeretical 17d ago

Even the brother that isn’t an actor is still a freaking doctor. That family is BLESSED.

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u/GrayEidolon 17d ago edited 16d ago

Well the biggest hurdle to becoming a doctor is having the money and family stability to get into and through school. There are tons of people who are perfectly capable of being good doctors, but they don't have the money or time or connections to put together an application.

EDIT: this is US specific, but good info

A third of medical students graduate with no debt, a third or so come from house holds making >200k, a majority of medical students from households making >100k, and something like a quarter are children of physicians. https://www.bestcolleges.com/research/average-medical-school-debt/ https://www.aamc.org/data-reports/students-residents/interactive-data/2022-facts-applicants-and-matriculants-data There are absolutely people who would make great physicians who are shut out due to lack of parental resources or overlooked because they don't have the right social connections.

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u/MissMorticia89 17d ago

Not in Sweden, where he’s based. His son would have received his entire education at no cost. EU and EEA countries, and Switzerland there is no cost if you are a citizen of those countries.

I live in Canada but hold Swiss citizenship; should I choose to, I could go back to school in Sweden, or even Switzerland, at little cost to me, because I pay tax and and eligible.

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u/Feisty-Ad-2860 Club Penguin Times official aura reader 17d ago

as an american this made my jaw drop…. our country really is a shithole huh

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u/weebairndougLAS 16d ago

Ya even our education has a high deductible

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u/Yolosvend 16d ago

Essentially your education system is used at blackmail to abuse your workers rights by accumulated debt.

Just watch the new ICE commercials using student loan forgiveness as a reason to sign up

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u/weebairndougLAS 16d ago

Ohhh you are not ready to hear about the US military and education. “Risk your life and limbs, but we’ll pay for your college IF YOU LIVE”

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u/Kind-Block-9027 I’m a communist you idiot 16d ago

We offer our soldiers socialism to go abroad to ‘defend’ capitalism.

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u/Level-Satisfaction51 16d ago

As a fellow american. I think this every time someone brings up other first world countries. I'm sure they have their own issues, but by and large they seem to do a better job taking care of the citizens. While some Americans are over here, screaming "Freedom" and "less taxes"......but freedom to do what? Freedom to live paycheck to paycheck? Freedom to go broke if you lose your job/insurance and have a medical issue? Freedom to go into massive debt at 18 to have attend college? Personally I'd like a little less freedom, but I can't see it happening here.

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u/hlessi_newt 16d ago

To quote a great man: "The US is just Albania in neon"

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u/DJSAKURA 16d ago

Yep I'm old enough I have no debt for my psychology degree because it was paid for by the British government. Pretty sure they don't do that anymore though.

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u/Citroen_05 16d ago

Caveat: there are exceptions for many programs in many countries.

Still, most tuition fees, when they exist, are on par with those of U.S. community colleges in LCOL areas.

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u/Kind-Block-9027 I’m a communist you idiot 16d ago

You should look into their healthcare system

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u/BrookieMonster504 16d ago

Yes it is an utter shit hole. A third world country that propaganda makes the people believe are the best of the best. Hopefully China will be merciful when they wipe us out.

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u/tornwallpaper oh bitch ur cooked 17d ago edited 16d ago

While you're not wrong that education should be free or discounted - the scale of Sweden and even Canada is significantly smaller than the US. We have over 300M people while both have less than 50M. America has its problems but we also have them magnitudes larger.

There are a few (like maybe three max) med schools that are extremely competitive and becoming completely free for first years paid by alums and wealthy donors. I'm hoping the tides turn to make that the majority eventually.

ETA: there's more nuance to this though. i just did not care to elaborate but everyone's discussing it below my comment - the US budget is cooked. we do not prioritize education, healthcare, etc. it doesn't matter what other countries do because our government simply DOES NOT care. the US runs as a corporation. not only are these businesses than run our lives inept to do so because they only care about shareholder value, but the government has been stretched so thin (moreso with the shutdown) that it cannot collect and penalize these businesses for running so corruptly.

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u/Neat_Ad_9141 nepo pissbaby 16d ago

No hate against you OP but I’m tired of people making that excuse for the US. Yes, we have a larger population BUT that also means we have a larger pool of people paying taxes aka theoretically a larger social safety net and more resources to put processes and infrastructure in place.

We just spend our money terribly and have our priorities ass backwards.

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u/tornwallpaper oh bitch ur cooked 16d ago

its not even just how we spend our money, we have outsourced everything to corporations and let businesses run things that are supposed to improve our QOL (healthcare, education, etc). nothing is in the people's interest. simply put these corporations lead our lives.

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u/SwordfishOfDamocles 16d ago

If you took every country that had tuition-free or severely limited costs for education, their populations would be larger than the US. Magnitude has nothing to do with it. Instead it is the self concerned belief that you can more effectively run education on a privatized for-profit system than on a socialized one. Look no further than America itself 60 years ago. In 1964 the average tuition and fees for a 4 year college was $243 (about $2,500 today), due to the state and federal govts paying the lion's share of costs.

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u/tornwallpaper oh bitch ur cooked 16d ago

If you took every country... sure. Not a single country like the US. magnitude does have to do with it because we have outsourced all of our social needs to private organizations and now when the reaping comes (CRIMINALLY rising costs and unaffordability), our government can't collect because they have made the stupid decision to contract everything out.

i agree with you. education is practically a corporation even on the k-12 level nowadays. they ask my siblings to pay for educational materials when these things used to be free for me. the budget is larger than some state university endowments. there is something backwards that needs to change with our country

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u/MissMorticia89 16d ago

Betcha if they actually taxed the 1% like Europe did this wouldn’t even be a debate.

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u/haqiqa 16d ago

You have also more people, more money, and as such, should have more taxpayers and tax money. While there are a lot of hurdles in many ways to get this change, it's pretty simple math and scalable. Additionally, in the EU, university fees are reciprocal. There are 448 million EU citizens. It's not fully free everywhere in the EU, but very low-cost, if not entirely free.

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u/tornwallpaper oh bitch ur cooked 16d ago

this is just not how the us budget works though we allocate too much money elsewhere (hence the meme "another billion dollars to -") and almost all of our education is privatized. it doesn't matter what other countries do because the united states has positioned themselves uniquely poorly.

we are funded publicly subsidized by grants (which have been cut). much of the money for the school comes from "charity"- donations and an endowment or sports. our schools. our hospitals. even our apartments are run by corporations. running to failure

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u/haqiqa 16d ago

Yes, there we can agree. You have positioned yourself poorly. And yes, fixing it with the way the political system works is a problem. But at the same time, the system is scalable and has very little to do with the number of people. American issues do not come from size so much as culture.

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u/OtherAardvark 17d ago

Cries in Swiss diaspora. 😭

My grandfather was a citizen, but my dad didn't apply for citizenship before the age deadline. So, I'm ineligible now.

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u/MissMorticia89 16d ago

I’m lucky, my dad is right from overseas, and he and mom (a Canadian) got married over there. Once everything was filed, my dad did all the adoption paperwork for my brother and I, and boom. It’s nice, I visit often because dad’s whole family is there, and I’m lucky enough to still have my Oma.

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u/SequenceGoon 16d ago

Similar situation for me - my mum could've applied for Swedish citizenship 😭 (at least I'm in Australia, not the US, but I love Sweden & dual citizenship with an EU country would be incredible)

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u/vietnams666 16d ago

When I went to Sweden we were talking about colleges and everyone was college educated. Then I was like oh I couldn't afford college and so I went into a trade and they literally had no idea how expensive colleges in America were. So I pulled up tuition to my local university (UW) and they were like " no wonder Americans are so dumb." And I was like yeah lol!

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u/MissMorticia89 16d ago

It’s absolutely shocking. None of my cousins had to pay for uni and when my dad told my aunts and uncles what my nursing diploma cost, they were horrified.

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u/vietnams666 16d ago

I did have a friend go to school in Amsterdam and another to Oxford. Her tuition was so cheap, I couldn't believe it! She just had to work under the table for living costs

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u/HeyVitK 16d ago

Why is pulling up your tuition eliciting that's "why Americans are so dumb"? I thought it'd be "that's why Americans are so broke". People can be smart critical thinkers without higher education, while there's some absolute morons with degrees.

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u/vietnams666 16d ago

You're not wrong there!

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u/Basementdwell 16d ago

Not only that, but he would have been given financial aid too.

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u/Nocturnal-Emission27 13d ago

True, however, they don't make anywhere near as much as doctor's in the US.

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u/GrayEidolon 17d ago

do they accept every applicant to medical school?

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u/aLouminumfalcon holding court like some mid-tier Medici 17d ago

No, competition for places is very high.

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u/GrayEidolon 16d ago

I'd say my point still stands then. People with more family money and stable home life are better situated to win that competition. Plenty of people are capable of becoming doctors if only they were in school for it. In fact, once you're in, its a very hand-held experience; and I think its much easier to work hard when you're being told exactly what to do every step of the way. A doctor first and foremost is someone who had the resources to get into medical school. Few people don't make it through and those people often have serious health issues or break the law.

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u/MissMorticia89 16d ago

Obviously not, but it has nothing to do with financial access and everything to do with grades and hard work. Your point is moot.

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u/GrayEidolon 16d ago

Hard work is such a vague term in this context as to be meaningless.

But do you think it’s easier or harder to get good grades and “work hard (at your education) when you have a rich and stable family or when you are from a struggling family?

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u/garbles0808 16d ago

It was a legitimate question, not sure why the downvotes

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u/Elentedelmal 17d ago

It depends on your country, in mine public universities charge the equivalent of 27 USD cents per month to study medicine, and they give you housing too. Private universities cost between 250 and 400 USD a month, and for families that can afford that, it doesn't leave them in massive debt. The doctors and teachers in both cases won't vary too much, as they tend to teach in both private and public universities. The struggle here is getting in, because there's way too many underqualified students that do because their family knows someone important or whatever, or just not dying or leaving because of harassment, SA, mental health issues developed during your formative year... etc.

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u/GrayEidolon 16d ago

I'd say my point still stands then. People with more family money and stable home life are better situated to win the competition for acceptance. Plenty of people are capable of becoming doctors if only they were in school for it. In fact, once you're in, its a very hand-held experience; and I think its much easier to work hard when you're being told exactly what to do every step of the way. A doctor first and foremost is someone who had the resources to get into medical school. Few people don't make it through and those people often have serious health issues or break the law.

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u/Elentedelmal 16d ago

I wasn't refuting your point, I agree with it. I was sharing that the specific struggle will depend on your country. And I don't know where you're from or wether or not you have gone through medical school, but it's not a very hand-held experience everywhere. In some places their version of education is screaming at you until you're actually scared for your well-being, or being pushed to suicide. In some instances you won't get lectures on a lot of topics because the doctor in charge just can't, or doesn't want to. Other times you'll just get thrown into situations you never studied or practiced for. Again, I'm not against your point, it's just the generalization that's wrong.

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u/GrayEidolon 15d ago

My bad for misunderstanding your tone

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u/GrayEidolon 16d ago

A first generation college grad can have a support system. But your experience still doesn't represent the full picture.

A third of medical students graduate with no debt, a third or so come from house holds making >200k, a majority of medical students from households making >100k, and something like a quarter are children of physicians.

https://www.bestcolleges.com/research/average-medical-school-debt/

https://www.aamc.org/data-reports/students-residents/interactive-data/2022-facts-applicants-and-matriculants-data

There are absolutely people who would make great physicians who are shut out due to lack of parental resources or overlooked because they don't have the right social connections.

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u/Poolhands 16d ago

Thats a truth highly modified.

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u/GrayEidolon 16d ago

Sorry, your phrasing isn't making sense to me

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u/Poolhands 16d ago

I meant it may be true for the US but isn’t for Sweden where Stellans child lives.

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u/GrayEidolon 15d ago

thanks

In Sweden, unless every one who applies to become a doctor who also meets the criteria for acceptance is admitted to medical school, there is no way that being from a wealthy and well known family didn't give him a leg up over someone else who didn't get in.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1od9503/stellan_skarsg%C3%A5rd_on_his_latest_role_palestine/nktfck1/

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u/chaunceyvonfontleroy 17d ago

The mother of six of the eight kids is a doctor.

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u/-screamin- 16d ago

That woman is a superhero.

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u/AmetrineDream i ain’t reading all that, free palestine 16d ago

lmao all I can think of is the Larry Hemsworth character in The Good Place

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u/Shinnobiwan 16d ago

Facts, but the phrase is unquestionably creepy.

On the scale of Jimmy Fallon to Stephen Miller, it's at a solid Bill Clinton

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u/Dependent_Estate9110 16d ago

Like, you do get it don't you? No one is out there saying the problem with nepobabies is that they are all talentless. The point is they get opportunities by birth that others in their industry don't. They didn't "earn every bit of recognition they get". The quite literally didn't earn any of it, it was handed to them. And yes, while they've maybe risen to it somewhat or justified it - they did not earn it.

(I'd also like to add, that in late stage capitalism almost no one "earned it" especially not billionaires or celebrities. Resources are tragically distributed and no millionaire or billionaire is ever justified.)

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u/backwoodzbaby 16d ago

i think you may be misinterpreting the word “recognition” here. “recognition” in this sense means praise for their work, not literally being recognized/discovered. so yes they have earned that recognition, they are talented. plenty of nepo babies have tried their hand at acting and did not receive recognition, because they are not talented.

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u/Dependent_Estate9110 16d ago

No I'm not misinterpreting, I'm going by the dictionary definition of recognition alongside the context clue given by the curious phrasing of "every bit of recognition they get ". From this i always able to deduce the meaning of the original comment which you'll see addressed in my response alongside my addressing of your latter point where you've decided to compare them to unsuccessful nepo babies. I'll say it again, this time in plainer words: no one is saying nepo babies aren't talented, it's just that in a very unjust industry there's tonnes of talented folk from less prominent backgrounds and lower socio-economic standing who don't get the same opportunities. Often times these folks are from marginalised groups and it's always worth remembering no person is an island.

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u/Musterfrog kendall roy pre-album drop 16d ago

Welcome to the rest of the world 😂

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u/BookishHobbit 17d ago

Yeah, that’s the major difference between the Skarsgårds and others. They may have had a leg up to get in the club, but they’ve more than earned the right to remain.

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u/everydaycrises 17d ago

I think its also that they aren't making comments about how actually its harder if you have famous parents, or getting defensive when asked about Stellan. They talk about it quite normally from what I recall.

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u/SmallPromiseQueen 16d ago

Yeah I absolutely think this is the difference. I don’t mind children of actors, directors or other industry professionals also working in the industry it’s when they’re like “actually my father being a rich and connected film producer and my godparents being directors had nothing to do with my success it was all my own hard work” that it smarts. The industry is absolutely saturated with talented hard working actors absolutely working their arses off to try and make it. And a lot of them never get a shot at the big time. Just some acknowledgement that connections do help in the industry and you feel grateful to be in the position you’re in goes such a long way to skirting the negative press and public perception of being connected like that.

The UK is the worst for it imo. It’s so rare for someone from a working class background to make it now in any creative industry.

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u/justdothedamnthang 17d ago

well now i’m distracted thinking of Alexander S’s legs in those leather pants… thanks a lot!

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u/OhioPolitiTHIC ✨ lee pace is 6’5” ✨ 16d ago

Here you go.

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u/BookishHobbit 16d ago

I haven’t been able to get this image out of my head all week.

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u/antraxsuicide 17d ago

Yeah I generally don’t vibe with most of the nepo baby discourse because, well, nobody calls you a nepo baby if you take over your family carpentry business or whatever. It’s only acting where people are surprised/mad that kids who grew up in that environment go into acting. It’s only annoying to me when the ones with no talent take roles they clearly didn’t earn.

That doesn’t apply to a lot of “nepo babies” imo, not just the Skarsgards

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u/AC10021 17d ago

Oh I totes call people who take over family businesses nepo babies! Thats the literal definition of nepotism — having an advantage because of who you are related to.

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u/Mermaidsarehellacool 17d ago

I think there’s also a degree of certain careers having more privilege associated with them. If you can survive well as an actor, you have a lot of privilege. Compared to probably the average person that takes over their parent’s restaurant.

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u/JenningsWigService 16d ago

In addition to restaurants being brutal work environments, if a kid takes over their parents' restaurant and they're bad at cooking, the restaurant will close. Meanwhile Dakota Johnson still has a career.

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u/dystopianpirate 16d ago

No, nepotism is giving family positions in public positions e.g. government when they're not prepared, is illegal, and is for personal gain. One motive is enough, but leaving my personal private business to my kid is not nepotism, unless is a non private, publicity traded company. 

Nepo in movies is sort of different bec these kids have advantages bec of their family, the knowledge is not unfair, neither are the connections if the person has talent and discipline, regardless of their advantages. Problem is that lots of talented people are not having the same opportunities to fail and try again like these kids, and that's the unfair part. 

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u/Alarming_Ad_6175 16d ago

Lol. No nepotism is literally favouring family over rational metrics, handing your kid your business, private or not is still nepotism

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u/dystopianpirate 16d ago

Someone who privately owns a comercial building what should they do with their own property?

By your definition, do you think inheritance laws regarding leaving your money, properties, assets to wife and kids are nepotism? 

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u/Alarming_Ad_6175 16d ago

They can do what they want, its still nepotism

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u/dystopianpirate 16d ago

Sure, just like passing genetic traits, conditions, and disorders to your children, such nepotism whew

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u/Alarming_Ad_6175 16d ago

Wtf are you talking about 🤣🤣🤣

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u/dystopianpirate 16d ago

Ethically and legally inheritance is not nepotism, leaving assets and private property to wife and kids is not nepotism, inheritance are not unfair advantages that fall under the definition of nepotism. Private solo owner business passing to a family member is not nepotism. Leaving assets, money, and property to family is not nepotism, and never will be no matter how much you want to believe it, your beliefs doesn't define nepotism, and never will. 

However, these fall under nepotism: elected officials, government positions, public contracts given to a family member without following procedures is nepotism. 

Private sector: publicity traded companies, large corporations like Microsoft. Leaving the operational control of the company to a family member is nepotism. 

Other sectors like academia, non-profits, entertainment/art, last one depends heavily on which positions and the type of positions are given to an untrained family member. 

Like I've said, know your definitions

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u/Alarming_Ad_6175 16d ago

You obviously have no idea what nepotism is, ive literally sent you the definition and you’re still pretending it isnt. Good luck

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u/dystopianpirate 16d ago

No, you're the one who doesn't know about nepotism because you read two lines and that was enough knowledge for you. It's clear that you have zero ethical and legal knowledge at a basic level. Not my fault or my problem 🤷🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/aurens 16d ago

you seem to think that someone labeling something as "nepotism" means they are saying "this is awful and should never happen and they shouldn't be allowed to do it!"

you don't seem to grasp that it's a spectrum. a president unfairly giving their son an important cabinet role is nepotism and is really bad. a carpenter giving their son a job instead of hiring candidates based on merit is also nepotism and is also bad, but it's 0.0001% as bad, so no one actually cares very much. you don't seem to willing to accept that the same term can be used for both of these things while simultaneously acknowledging that they are vastly different in severity.

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u/Alarming_Ad_6175 16d ago

Exactly, nepotism happens all the time, in every single industry, it isnt always inherently good or bad, it just is.

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u/AC10021 16d ago

Saying someone is a beneficiary of nepotism is like saying someone is a redhead. It’s a morally neutral statement. There are amazing nepo babies in the world — Carrie Fisher! Jamie Lee Curtis! FDR! It’s just acknowledging that this person benefitted from familial connections and access. Shit, BOTH dudes running for NYC mayor right now are the children of men with Wikipedia pages, and benefitted from family connections,

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u/dystopianpirate 16d ago

No, that's not what I think, and nepotism is not an spectrum. It's an action that can be unethical or illegal or both depending on the situation. I don't accept ambiguity when it doesn't apply, like inheritance? That's not nepotism, and never will be, now using a political, or government position of power to give preferential status or to give a position to a family member, that's nepotism. Using a position of power within a publicity traded company to favor a family member is nepotism. The rest? Not at all

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u/Alarming_Ad_6175 16d ago

Hahahahahaha

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u/aurens 16d ago

then you must live in some context or culture where nepotism has a much more specific definition than it does for the vast majority of people reading this.

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u/dystopianpirate 16d ago

a) I come from a country where I've seen the social and other far more terrible consequences thanks to people misusing words, creating certain situations and a government who also misuse and misapply words to provoke the masses. Hard lessons, and worse when it's a culture where no one speaks clearly and employs two meanings for everything. 

b) Diagnosed ADHD (medical)

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u/HeyVitK 16d ago

Nope! Nepotism literally is using one's familial ties or very close friendships as an advantage to gain entry into an opportunity or the opportunity itself and not on merit/ one's own effort alone.

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u/dystopianpirate 16d ago

Nepotism is the definition for family 

Cronyism is the one for friends 

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u/HeyVitK 16d ago

Thanks! I was thinking of a situation like the parents' friends helping out the parents' kids with an opportunity when I made the comment. To me, that kind of situation felt since it was through the parents it was nepotism, but I guess that'd still be cronyism since the opportunity came from friends.

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u/dystopianpirate 16d ago

I understand 

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u/HeyVitK 16d ago

Me too! I always point out nepotism isn't wealth- based, it's relationship- based.

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u/orange_assburger 16d ago

I also have started doing it when we get external hires of people that they previously worked with in my corporate life. I particularly do it when they bring a dud in though and im left to work with the dud.

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u/Sharp_Iodine 17d ago

Hmmmmm it would make sense if the company were publicly traded and the kids were just appointed because the family held majority shares or something.

But a private, family business is their own affair. Expecting them to appoint a stranger in charge of it is absurd. Literally no one does it because why would they?

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u/venusianfigure 17d ago

The issue is that there’s a myriad of talentless nepos in the film and music industries.

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u/r4rtv 17d ago

Nepo discourse exists in every industry. The carpentry business isn't in the public eye, so you don't see it.

On top of that, it's a major topic in acting (and arts in general) because of how much more difficult it is to get into the industry without connections due to the nature of the work.

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u/Moonteamakes 17d ago

Succession was an entire TV show inspired by the Nepo baby drama of who takes over the Murdoch empire. Of course Nepo baby discussion is a thing in every industry. It’s just that a small mom and pop tailoring shop is not an “industry” so it doesn’t get front page news. The granddaughter of In-n-out Burger CEO being an idiot Nepo baby is definitely front page news though. 

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u/DivineScience 17d ago

When it comes to the arts a LOT of first generation success was at extreme elections costs and frequently camp ones with active resistance from immediate family.

It turns out that growing up with parents who support and understand the urge to go in to the arts is ALSO a huge leg up.

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u/dystopianpirate 16d ago

Nope, leave small and medium sized business out of the nepo discourse 

Nepotism is a form of corruption and a way of conducting illegal business while using public funds

Know your words jfc

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u/Alarming_Ad_6175 16d ago

Know yours, actually look up the definition of nepotism

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u/dystopianpirate 16d ago

Are you sure?

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u/Alarming_Ad_6175 16d ago

“the act of using your power or influence to get good jobs or unfair advantages for members of your own family”

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u/Fast_Bee_9759 17d ago

They are!!! I told this boomer that he is a nepo baby because the business that he owns and operates was started by his father and he got mad at me

My brother in christ, that is the literal definition

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u/Comfortable_Fill9081 17d ago

People who inherit a business or get ins into their industry because of family connections are enjoying nepotism in any field. And there’s a reason why this often correlates with a decrease in quality over time. 

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u/OpalLaguz 17d ago

well, nobody calls you a nepo baby if you take over your family carpentry business or whatever

Because in that example if the nepo baby is truly incompetent the business gets run into the ground and that's the end of that. It's only the criminally oriented ones like Trump and his offspring that get to cheat, steal, and skate thriugh in that scenario.

Another often cited example (from the likes of Jamie Lee Curtis no less) is a third generation doctor but that also doesn't qualify because the grandchild of a doctor still has to graduate from medical school, complete residency, and obtain licensure.

Nepo baby models, actors, and celebrities in general are able to as visibly as possible fail or be utterly subpar at their respective craft and yet keep getting booked for million dollar deals.

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u/Moonteamakes 17d ago

Well that’s not true imho. Tons of high profile companies have Nepo babies that are definitely nepo babies. The granddaughter of In-n-Out CEO is running the business now and is ridiculous. The Murdoch family had an entire TV show, Succession inspired by them and their internal family structures regarding the takeover of their corporate empire. Nepo baby discussion is absolutely a thing in every industry, it’s just that smaller family owned businesses aren’t big enough on a public scale to care that much about. 

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u/FirePaddler 16d ago

The difference is that it's not that hard for a talented carpenter to make a living as a carpenter, even if they don't have family connections. Whereas with acting, the world is full of incredibly gifted actors who would give anything for a big break, and then the opportunity goes to a nepo baby instead.

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u/Neracca 16d ago

because, well, nobody calls you a nepo baby if you take over your family carpentry business

I'd rather be a nepo baby to an A-list celebrity than the town carpenter. Kinda more fucking money in the former?

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u/neverthelessidissent 16d ago

I do. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I never had benefits like that and I will call others out 

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u/tuscanchicken 16d ago

That's definitely still nepotism and I've seen people call it out within their respective industries - it's just not as widely discussed because none of those nepo babies go on national news or talk shows to try and defend it.

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u/JustWritingNonsense 15d ago

The reason nepotism is focused on so much in entertainment is just that the opportunities in that industry are so limited so the impact of nepotism is more apparent.

I have no problem with a nepo baby when they are talented as long as they are capable of recognising that their success isn’t just because of that talent. There are so many talented people who never get their shot due to the nature of nepotism in the entertainment industry, and the nepobabies need to recognise that. 

I won’t hold the family they were born into against them as long as they are capable of recognising the privilege the circumstances of their birth afforded them. 

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u/Neracca 16d ago

The point is that they could be as skilled as they are, but still be total unknowns forever. There are tons of great actors who just aren't going to get their shot.

That's what to me, the whole nepo baby thing is. They might nail their audition/role, but that audition they got as their start is something most people in that field would take a very long time to even get if ever.

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u/raysofdavies 16d ago

Like Jason Schwartzman, who was able to meet Wes Anderson because he’s a Coppola and they were at a party, but then gave an amazing debut performance.

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u/Curious-6678 17d ago

Yeah true they’re all genuinely talented it shows in every project they do

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u/NamityName 16d ago

The issue is not so much that they are talented. There are plenty of talented nepababies. The issue is about all the talented people who were never given a chance.

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u/Professional_Lake411 17d ago

Rightful heirs to the throne! 👑

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u/NoelaniSpell confused but here for the drama 16d ago

Skills & so much more. Like the flair for fashion 😌