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That's never going to happen unless you truly change human nature. We are tribal and protect our families. Nepotism is a family member making life better for

• throwawayjava 7y ago
  > I'm not sure we will still be a society if we eliminate family bonds. There's a significant difference between not having nepotism and eliminating family bonds. > We are tribal and protect our families. Many of virtuous_signal's arguments boiled down to the observation that protecting your family via nepotism or dynastic preference isn't even necessarily good for the effected family member in the long run. I think that poster makes a good argument that dynastic preference in university admissions is a net negative for its beneficiaries. The negatives of nepotism also show up in business, where, with rare exception, nepotism tends to genereate a huge drain on both productivity and external respect.