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There is also the factor that the nepo kids are trained since birth for the role, often with the best education money can buy.

Training makes up a lot for stupidity and other gaps.

At some point, it doesn’t matter enough, but that can go quite awhile.

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No drugs at private schools? The machinery catering to wealthy parents is good at 3 things, placatting parents, preventing scandals, creating interelite connections. It's not good at educating, no matter how expensive. There is simply put absolutely no incentives to work

[lazide]

Those seem like pretty critical skills to teach someone in the ruling elite actually.

Doing those things at scale is ‘work’ even if it isn’t what most people consider work.

Learning how to sweat a pipe is useful if that’s what you’re going to need to do to put food on the table.

Learning how to placate powerful sponsors, not get caught doing naughty things, and networking among other power brokers is how you put food on the table as a ruling elite isn’t it? Or at least avoid being burned at the stake.

And not something they’re going to teach effectively at your neighborhood public school.