>(and within tech, I've noticed PR, marketing, other non STEM to be where the 'connected' get promoted). I think you hit on something important, this merit and

>(and within tech, I've noticed PR, marketing, other non STEM to be where the 'connected' get promoted). I think you hit on something important, this merit and skills based promotion is something unique to tech where there is a culture of meritocracy. That doesn't exist in many fields and in many fields people get where there are solely because of who their parents were rather than what their parents taught them, and that applies even in the United States and Canada