Friends before capable individuals

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Or more succinctly, nepotism (not to be confused with neopets)

Nepotism, in a broad sense, refers to when people in power give preference (or some other advantage) to friends and/or family. In other words, it's when the head honcho lets his stupid brother be a doctor despite him failing out of 4th grade.

So why is this bad?
Imagine going out to eat and you arrive at a restaurant. You order a burger, and wait for it to come back out. The burger comes out with a log of human feces between two buns that were probably left out in the sun for a couple of months. This obviously is awful. In fact, it's terrible. It's horrible. Why did this happen?

So, you go to the local chief and tell him "hey, uh, this restaurant over here, this establishment right there, yeah, so uh, it literally just served me a shit sandwich. Like, the cook just took a dump on a bun and served it to me."

You might expect the chief to be all like "well this is unacceptable!" and close down the establishment. But instead, the chief is like, "ok, ill consider it" and literally does nothing. And you wanna know why nothing happens? Because the chief's brother is the one who just took a shit in your sandwich!

Don't you think you're exaggerating?
Okay, I am.

But here's the point, capable individuals should come before friends. When the leader chooses to slap his butt buddies in charge instead of people who know what they're talking about, you're going to get served shit sandwiches (metaphorically). And when you complain about the shit sandwiches, nothing will happen, because you're not the leader's friend!

So how do we fix neopetsism?
leave lmao