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An interesting article, in that it claims that even among Trump supporters, nepotism (exploiting one’s kinship) is more annoying than grifting (exploiting one’s money). Perhaps that makes sense; Trump supporters are disproportionately in social classes when “starting a business and making a bundle” is a common goal, and so exploiting that bundle will be seen as natural. (The Democratic Party is dominated by “professional employees” for whom starting a business is rarely in the cards.) But the largest group of beneficiaries of their parents’ money in the US today are the children of the well-off professional employees, who work very hard to track their children into similar jobs and a lot of people in the Trump-supporting classes think that systematically shuts them out of getting better-paying jobs.
An interesting article, in that it claims that even among Trump supporters, nepotism (exploiting one’s kinship) is more annoying than grifting (exploiting one’s money). Perhaps that makes sense; Trump supporters are disproportionately in social classes when “starting a business and making a bundle” is a common goal, and so exploiting that bundle will be seen as natural. (The Democratic Party is dominated by “professional employees” for whom starting a business is rarely in the cards.) But the largest group of beneficiaries of their parents’ money in the US today are the children of the well-off professional employees, who work very hard to track their children into similar jobs and a lot of people in the Trump-supporting classes think that systematically shuts them out of getting better-paying jobs.