I am in no way against nepotism. Of course, I doubt that is a surprise, since I am an upper-class type person and that is how we perpetuate ourselves

Recently, I was talking (and later about) a very impressive acquaintance of mine who wants to get into the same field as one of their parents, but is too proud to ask that parent to use their influence on the person's behalf. I understand the reasoning here. If you use nepotism to secure a position that you otherwise couldn't have gotten, then you, almo…