The fact that the parent was a teacher rather than a more classically "influential" profession gave me more pause on this than the "connections not directly through gaming" aspect did. If you get the job because of familial connection, that's nepotism, at least in the sense of the word we use now (where many nepo babies are talented in their own right, but undoubtedly received access others didn't to career opportunities)
11 months ago | 14
70% of jobs are hired through connections. Knowing someone who knows someone is networking. Hiring someone based off their merits with the initial reason they got an interview is normal. Putting your friends son in charge of a department solely based off of that relationship would be nepotism
11 months ago | 9
I feel like this is enough information that the historically-minded among you will already be able to tell what this video is about...
11 months ago | 4
I’d consider this to be using connections to network, rather than nepotism.
11 months ago | 4
This is just Miyamoto's life story. His father knew Yamauchi if I remember correctly.
11 months ago | 5
Semantically it’s cronyism, but the implication of that is a vertical (superior/subordinate) relationship instead of a horizontal one (peers or equivalents in the same(ish) professional sphere). This gets a lot more complex with a lot of these relationships and networks are cross-disciplinary so someone who’s a professor in a field effectively works as a peer for graduate-level outside of their field. Is this a vertical or horizontal relationship? tl;dr, nepo will get paragraph-typers to farm engagement. Cronyism will confuse a lot of people and get a different type of paragraph-typers in the comments.
11 months ago | 1
So, you're asking if it's nepotism if your dad knows a guy? Nepotism is Kevin Bacon getting your foot in the door when you're the child of Kevin Bacon. Knowing a chain of people who know Kevin Bacon isn't nepotism. Whether or not you should have Kevin Bacon help get your foot in the door could be a different conversation.
11 months ago | 5
hmmm i can tell what this is about, i never really thought about the situation that way but i can certainly see why someone might think it is. that said i think “nepo baby” tends to refer more to people who got that position through familial connections while being unqualified or less qualified than others who would go for the job. i’d say he’s more than proven that he was in fact the man for the job, so i personally wouldn’t consider him a nepo baby
11 months ago | 0
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10 months ago | 0
Video Game Story Time
Working on a video script, have a semantic question. If someone gets a job in game development because their dad (a teacher) knows the head of the company, does that make them a nepo baby?
11 months ago | [YT] | 37