Why does everything these days have to have a stupid, ridiculous sounding name?
You’d never have heard of Prince Harry if he didn’t have a famous mum.
so instead of taking a universal class issue and rallying around it, Vice are publishing nonsense about other nations — literally doing the right-wing press’ job
Also this is lousy:
>Nepotism in the UK is different in the same way that Ricky Gervais’ The Office differs to Steve Carrell’s: It’s subtler, nastier, and arguably more effective in achieving its aims.
> Gwyneth Paltrow says she might ‘need a few’ of Hailey Bieber’s T-shirts
No, what Gwyneth Paltrow needs [excised] up [expunged] candle-smelling [extirpated]…
No suprise to anyone with a working class background or strong regional accent that classism is rife within our society still. I’m from the North East and had to endure some frankly ridiculous comments about my region and accent in professional and personal settings. Private schools and boarding schools seem fantastically adept at pumping out sociopaths completely disconnected from the majority of the British public.
Don’t need to go over to America to see nepotism in action.
As someone who knows a certain ex-UKIP leaders son through a friend of a friend. You can get a well paying job in banking pretty easily through your dad via nepotism without a degree or any other decent formal qualifications, last I’d heard a few years ago he’d sacked that off though.
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Mm a society where the majority of the performing arts went to 1 of 2 universities? I’m sure theres no nepotism at all there
Seems like cope for Americans to read and incorrectly feel better about themselves.
Britain still has hereditary peerage which is some serious nepotism compared to Hollywood etc.
We have a Royal Family and there is no sign of that changing any time soon. We also have a landed gentry and hereditary peers in the House of Lords. Our history and society is built on class and knowing the right people from the time you start school. Nepotism is always going to be rife when it has been part of British life for over a millennium?
I feel like the next generation of online influences and streamers are going to start having all these connections as well lol
As someone who tried to get into the film industry can attest: it’s who you know that gets you anywhere. I didn’t know anyone but thought my passion and natural talent would get where I wanted to go. I spent a few years doing free work experience on odd film jobs whilst working full time in a horrible cinema earning no money, never seeing my friends and getting deeply depressed. I ended up becoming a chef and now years later feel trapped in a career I never wanted.
Nepotism in the UK is much much much worse than the US. At least in the US they keep it in the family, in the UK you just have to have gone to the right schools.
E.g Fiona Hill, the US Russia expert with a Yorkshire accent had to emigrate to the US to get a job on her level.
Hope you’re supporting local artists and boycotting the posh kids 🙃
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> Nepo Babies
Why does everything these days have to have a stupid, ridiculous sounding name?
You’d never have heard of Prince Harry if he didn’t have a famous mum.
so instead of taking a universal class issue and rallying around it, Vice are publishing nonsense about other nations — literally doing the right-wing press’ job
Also this is lousy:
>Nepotism in the UK is different in the same way that Ricky Gervais’ The Office differs to Steve Carrell’s: It’s subtler, nastier, and arguably more effective in achieving its aims.
> Gwyneth Paltrow says she might ‘need a few’ of Hailey Bieber’s T-shirts
No, what Gwyneth Paltrow needs [excised] up [expunged] candle-smelling [extirpated]…
No suprise to anyone with a working class background or strong regional accent that classism is rife within our society still. I’m from the North East and had to endure some frankly ridiculous comments about my region and accent in professional and personal settings. Private schools and boarding schools seem fantastically adept at pumping out sociopaths completely disconnected from the majority of the British public.
Don’t need to go over to America to see nepotism in action.
As someone who knows a certain ex-UKIP leaders son through a friend of a friend. You can get a well paying job in banking pretty easily through your dad via nepotism without a degree or any other decent formal qualifications, last I’d heard a few years ago he’d sacked that off though.
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Mm a society where the majority of the performing arts went to 1 of 2 universities? I’m sure theres no nepotism at all there
Seems like cope for Americans to read and incorrectly feel better about themselves.
Britain still has hereditary peerage which is some serious nepotism compared to Hollywood etc.
We have a Royal Family and there is no sign of that changing any time soon. We also have a landed gentry and hereditary peers in the House of Lords. Our history and society is built on class and knowing the right people from the time you start school. Nepotism is always going to be rife when it has been part of British life for over a millennium?
I feel like the next generation of online influences and streamers are going to start having all these connections as well lol
[Obligatory reminder that Vice is trash](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia7fUQXskvA)
As someone who tried to get into the film industry can attest: it’s who you know that gets you anywhere. I didn’t know anyone but thought my passion and natural talent would get where I wanted to go. I spent a few years doing free work experience on odd film jobs whilst working full time in a horrible cinema earning no money, never seeing my friends and getting deeply depressed. I ended up becoming a chef and now years later feel trapped in a career I never wanted.
Nepotism in the UK is much much much worse than the US. At least in the US they keep it in the family, in the UK you just have to have gone to the right schools.
E.g Fiona Hill, the US Russia expert with a Yorkshire accent had to emigrate to the US to get a job on her level.
Hope you’re supporting local artists and boycotting the posh kids 🙃