Obviously there been some term drift, but I don’t think nepo babydom is really “about” Hollywood anymore. It’s a handy loanword for America having much less class mobility than we think it does, meaning here it’s less about Theo being in the Atlantic than *being at Stanford.*
Obviously there been some term drift, but I don’t think nepo babydom is really “about” Hollywood anymore. It’s a handy loanword for America having much less class mobility than we think it does, meaning here it’s less about Theo being in the Atlantic than *being at Stanford.*
We built the whole professional class on nepo babies. Stare at this chart and face God!
@mattdpearce I agree with this but at that point the term doesn't make that much sense. Like, if I became a journalist or he became an academic, or a management consultant, or a lawyer, that fixes the problem implied by the term but it doesn't fix the thing people are actually mad at
@mattdpearce "Nepo [exec]/[owner]/[etc.]" has been a Detroit area biz term for many decades. No industry, trade, region, etc. has an exclusivity on its use. We also know it's just a label and you look past it and get to know the individual and their track record if you're a decent biz peep
@mattdpearce In this case, it's because a teenager was given the cover story of The Atlantic to file a hacky story written at a 3rd grade level. A random Stanford student doesn't get that.
@mattdpearce I looked up the Rep on my hometown who gave us a tour of the Capital on a school trip. He has two kids, one is the mayor of the county and the other is the elected DA