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"Nepotism" also partially exists to keep "the rabble" out of whatever it is someone finds important, out of some misguided belief they are (and always will be)
by krageon 4y ago
"Nepotism" also partially exists to keep "the rabble" out of whatever it is someone finds important, out of some misguided belief they are (and always will be) inferior. The last bit is important: AI assisted content generation may be bad now, but what about 5 years from now? 10? Will it then still be bad people generate stuff automatically?
Nepotism doesn't have a defense, because it's defense is essentially "tradition". I've genuinely not heard a compelling argument for that either - it always boils down to something anachronistic (i.e. racism, classism, etc).
- wrp 4y agoWe have two different meanings for "nepotism" here. His is "hiring within the family because I know their qualifications better." Yours is "hiring within the family even though someone outside has better qualifications."
- rsynnott 4y agoThose are close to the same thing, though. _Obviously_ there exist people outside a family who are more qualified for any given thing than any of the people in the family.