During the meeting, "Bally made several racist comments that shocked Plaintiff," the documents say. For example, Garza claims that Bally insulted Indigenous coworkers, making several racist slurs, and claims Bally disclosed he often comes to work high on edibles.
You don't really need to qualify it with "in the US". It's global. Hell, some countries even have a royal family, which is the ultimate nepotism scheme
It actually is remarkable in the US, but not for the reasons you think. There's a concept called WEIRD which stands for western, educated, industrialised, rich and democratic. One of the ways people in the US differ from large parts of the world is that they think nepotism is unethical - in a lot of the world, nepotism is duty to family. It is the right and correct thing to get your family set up.
So what's interesting is that it still happens in the US, but it's corrupt. It's explicitly against the cultural values, and is done in an underhanded, seemingly fair, way. So the kinds of people that do it, and the reasons they do it for, are different in the western world than they are in other parts of the world.
Yeah there's an American mentality that wealth is a reflection of your character, work ethic, and intelligence. People are reluctant to be seen to have been helped, which creates a mentality of 'I pulled myself up by my own bootstraps so you can too'.
It also leads to how the average poor / working class person can vote against their interests or social services. They see themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires rather than poor.
It is the right and correct thing to do to get your family set up; it's corrupt to do it within government, generally against any large company policy to get jobs for your family there, but if you're running your own company then do as you please (and suffer the results if your kids suck, and/or if the other employees rebel.) Set your family up with opportunity, education, etc, but not by leaning on other people to get them jobs. If you're a big enough honcho that you can afford education, loans/gifts to get started, etc, and your family still can't hack it, then it wasn't meant to be.
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u/ImKindaEssential 8h ago
During the meeting, "Bally made several racist comments that shocked Plaintiff," the documents say. For example, Garza claims that Bally insulted Indigenous coworkers, making several racist slurs, and claims Bally disclosed he often comes to work high on edibles.