The usual kulak/petty burshwá dipshit who "runs the family business" of leeching surplus value and sending some emails is usually proud of it, leave alone the shitstains with 4 surnames and zero heterozigous loci.

Same with PMCs in overpayed jobs, usually saying "yeah I got this job thanks to my uncle/frat top"

But then mediocre overvalued "artists" piss and moan about their daddy owning Sony not being a big deal in their astroturfed careers.

Why? Some people do end up actually liking their music, so who cares if they didn't have to audition a million times and waste their own few money playing virtually for free in shitty bars?

  • ennemi [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Because it's a political statement. If you have to admit that your success is (comparatively) unearned, which is not particularly difficult for a humble person to do, you are also raising the question of why that is possible to begin with. Celebrity status will probably always be hereditary to some extent, but looking at the fact that it's still possible to inherit organizations that are large enough to rival small countries (eg Wal Mart), and that Ivy League aristocracy pretty much runs the entire fucking world economy and state apparati, one has to wonder whether we ever abolished hereditary rule at all or just did half of the work and spent the next few centuries deluding ourselves.