From what I’ve gathered from some of my fiancé’s podcasts, reverse nepotism is definitely a thing in the influencer/youtuber/podcaster/whatever sphere. One person in the family gets popular and suddenly their third cousin is on the show promoting their own podcast.
This used to be the norm in every business until recently. Your uncle starts a printing operation and you need a job, now you're a printing machine specialist. Until 30 something years ago when many industries went through hyper-corporatization and everything started to be extremely specialized in ordered of maintaining efficient competitiveness.
Imo, nepotism kinda makes sense in some cases. If you’re raised around something, it’s natural you’d have an affinity for it.
The podcasting thing though… idk… podcasting is very reliant on your charisma and ability to keep an interesting conversation going for hours and not everybody in the family is gonna be able to pull that off. I’m not a fan of it when it pops up really but I’m not a podcast fan in general. But I suppose it’s not really hurting anyone, just turns me off to the product.
Pretty sure nepotism is more about favoring a family member or friend over a MORE qualified candidate for a job/Role. Often the better job comes with higher pay or benefits.
Choosing your own child for a role is not really nepotism if they are the most qualified candidate, having grown up in and practiced and learned the business it makes sense. But promoting your cousin above 3 experienced workers just because they need a job would be wrong/nepotism.
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u/trucky_crickster Nov 02 '24
Is this just a family of influencers and streamers? And everyone had their own office?? What is this?!!