In every facet of life the rich, wealthy and powerful choose to put their descendants before others. It’s literally what modern society is built upon: the idea that your children will have it better than you did.
Have you ever worked anywhere and saw that people didn’t put their friends, family and coworkers ahead of the others?
Have you ever seen a human system that didn’t put “others” behind whatever group they decided to create?
Even nonprofits and charities end up playing favorites. Once any organization gets to any real size it’s going to be corrupt. It’s human nature. All of humanity competes over this world’s limited resources. People will do anything to win.
No, this is Capitalism and our culture. There were and still are societies where there is very little competition between individuals or even where the concept of “competition” is unknown.
This works with small communuties living naturally, like tribes in South America. But I think with technological advancement and a cultural shift towards are more social and less individualistic society this could also work on greater scales.
Wait, this wasn’t known? I thought this was standard practice for all prestigious schools.
This shit happens in hospitals, too.
In every facet of life the rich, wealthy and powerful choose to put their descendants before others. It’s literally what modern society is built upon: the idea that your children will have it better than you did.
That’s everyone.
But we should be able to trust systems and institutions to keep things on the level .
On what level?
Have you ever worked anywhere and saw that people didn’t put their friends, family and coworkers ahead of the others?
Have you ever seen a human system that didn’t put “others” behind whatever group they decided to create?
Even nonprofits and charities end up playing favorites. Once any organization gets to any real size it’s going to be corrupt. It’s human nature. All of humanity competes over this world’s limited resources. People will do anything to win.
It’s not “human nature” per se, it’s human nature within this specific material context.
We cultivate competition on every level of society. We shouldn’t be surprised when people turn everything into a competition.
No, this is Capitalism and our culture. There were and still are societies where there is very little competition between individuals or even where the concept of “competition” is unknown.
This works with small communuties living naturally, like tribes in South America. But I think with technological advancement and a cultural shift towards are more social and less individualistic society this could also work on greater scales.
Not sure outside the US. Also, even in the US I only heard Stanford doing this openly iirc and if I think about it.
In the US, Legacy admissions are common at any school selective enough to have admissions.