You can take issue with the article but it's bizarre that people are calling Peter Baker's son a "nepo baby," a term coined to describe why so many Hollywood stars are children of Hollywood stars. Like, oh no, Theo Baker might enter the lucrative, dynamic world of...journalism?
It's a psychosis of the meritocracy-obsessed American upper-middle class that it's now considered scandalous to enter the same line of work as your parents, the standard career choice for most people throughout human history and across much of the world today.
[eating a Russ & Daughters bagel] you know, Russ's daughters, I'm told they had a leg up in the industry
LOL a defense of nepo babies...gosh does this man have one too? It's one thing to be a roofer when your dad's a roofer, but it's quite another when you come from power and your parents use their power to keep someone more deserving from your position. But let's remember the real villains here: the American people. You go! Speak truth to the powerless!
what people loath is HR Depts / folks making hiring decisions clearly leveraging parental or familiar ties in hiring decisions at in aggregate but insisting (individually) they are NOT that each decision is on "the merits".... that's why folks get so turnt bout "nepo" topics...cause it's a thing society still overvalues that largely benefits the "Elite"
@JakeAnbinder Same line of work is fine and typical. A college journalist, even a very good one, getting lots and lots of space in The Atlantic is unlikely without being deeply connected. Plenty of other ways get your essays into the world these days.
@JakeAnbinder That J.S. Mill not only went into his father's field, but he enjoyed personal tutoring from an early age by one of the field's other leading lights.