Cronyism and Nepotism: The Dual Drivers of the Rich Gated Communities
In our world, it’s not ever talent that matters. Talent is always a secondary consideration when it comes to success. If you ever want proof of that, just look at the people at the top of society? Are they the most talented people the human race has to offer? Quite the opposite. Often, the people who work the hardest get paid the least. Why is that? How could the world be so perverse?
The answer is the super rich. The top of society is a gated community to which only friends of the super rich are admitted. Inheritance ensures hereditary rule. And two principles of favor determine who succeeds in life: cronyism and nepotism. In other words, it’s not about what you know; it’s about who you know.
In Freemasonry, the only way you can join is to be invited by (thus connected to) someone who’s already a member. The super rich operate in exactly the same way.
Cronyism
Cronyism is the principle of favoring your buddies over everyone else. Buddies get the best jobs, the best connections, the best career paths, the best favors, the best prices. Friends are treated differently, as though they have more value than everyone else. In your personal life, this is acceptable, but professionally, it is not.
Nepotism
Nepotism is the principle of favoring your family members over everyone else. It’s the same as cronyism, just stronger since it plays on the ties a family naturally has. The efforts of thousands of people who actually try are invalidated. The super rich will always choose their family before you. But wouldn’t you do the same? – that’s the problem.
Choosing to hire someone based on nepotism is anti-merit since you hire them on the basis of which family they belong to, not that of their proven talents.
Nepotism promotes unfair inequality in businesses by regarding family as the most important principle, meaning that no matter how hard you work, you’ll never surpass someone who’s part of a higher up’s family.
Meritocracy
What must we do to ensure fairness? We must refocus on merit rather than privilege. Hiring and rewarding people based on talent, not connections, is the only way out of the doomed labyrinth of “who you know”. Cronyism and nepotism are known to exist, yet they leave ordinary people with astonishingly unfair odds. Why should the people accept such a system, given that it only works for the select few?
Trumpism of the Day
“THERE WAS NO INFLATION UNDER TRUMP! WE HAD NO PROBLEMS—THE WORLD WAS SAFE…” – Truth Social, September 4, 2024 [Link]
Trump literally has no capacity for self-criticism. He holds himself to no standards. He simply insists that he’s a winner, even when all evidence is against that claim. For Trump, Trump’s ideas are reality. He makes no distinction between the two. When people talk about “delusions of grandeur”, this is exactly the kind of thing they mean.
In Trump’s head, Trump is always right and never wrong. He has no humility, which is quite funny, because on December 25, 2013, he tweeted, “The new Pope is a humble man, very much like me, which probably explains why I like him so much!” [Link] Leave it to a narcissist to claim they’re humble at the very same instant that they’re bragging!
The more you observe Donald Trump, the more certain you become of his narcissistic nature. He never accepts fault for anything, despite being in a position of power. He wants to control everything but accept none of the responsibility for anything that goes wrong. Trump is a classic dark-triad member of the rich elite.
Only an idiot would vote Trump. Only an idiot could.
See Trump in his natural element in this recent rally:
He can’t survive in a place where people aren’t constantly cheering for him and giving him their validation. That’s why he always retweets (or “retruths”) people who praise him. Classic narcissist.
Speaking of narcissism: “Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at,” Trump told Fox News after the recent, second attempt on his life.
You know, it’s getting hard to say whether or not he actually believes his own bullshit.
I am deeply disturbed by the possible assassination attempt of former President Trump today. As we gather the facts, I will be clear: I condemn political violence. We all must do our part to ensure that this incident does not lead to more to violence.
Check out all the Chump voters in the replies. It’s classic!
These people are literally unable to tell the difference between jokes and actual, serious, incriminatory comments. They are spectacularly dangerous if they cannot make this simple distinction.
One reply reads, “Maybe stop incessantly calling Trump the “greatest threat to democracy” and maybe stop gaslighting and lying to the American people painting Trump as something he’s not using propaganda and hateful rhetoric.”
Another says: “Thanks for speaking out finally but forgive us if we, America don’t really believe anything that you say. You have proven to us you refuse to protect us by letting in millions of illegals, and failing your DUTY to protect America; US. So we don’t trust you.”
Another: “You just said he was a threat to democracy. YOUR OWN WORDS contributed to this. When are you going to stop using violent and hateful rhetoric?”
Uh huh.
Why aren’t these jackasses being all outraged all over Trump’s feed regarding his outright hatred of immigrants and his calling Kamala Harris a communist? Don’t pretend you have morals, guys!
It's YOUR fault. You guys have been pushing extremism against Trump and Trump supporters for YEARS. We're done. We're sick of you people. Gfy 🖕🏻 pic.twitter.com/xMfRqcrmcW
Harris laughs at you fucking idiots, and so does everyone else with a normal mind. “We’re done.” – you’re obviously not done because you’re still here, whining about Trump’s persecution to the people you apparently hate so much. It’s a rather sad existence to be defined so much by your enemies that, even while you say you’re done with them, you just can’t walk away. You’ve got to go whimper and cry while they laugh their asses off at you. 🖕🏿
Such is the life of people who have defined their identities around the belief that Donald Trump is a messiah. Their relationship to Trump is the same as that of a starstruck fangirl to her favorite celebrity. They deify Trump and can see no wrong in him. He is inerrant, and that makes him appear infinitely powerful to them.
Trump trivializes political issues. He a) makes them all about himself, and b) misrepresents them in terms of his personal hang-ups and hates. He Trumpizes politics. It might as well be called Trumpics: the study of Donald Trump!
