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Good question!

There absolutely is nepotism in the political sphere in every political system - but that's not what students are opposed about alone.

Basically, every government job (teacher, doctor, tax collector, bureaucrat, bus driver, etc), government funded service (college, hospital, etc), and PSU (eg. govt owned banks, energy companies, factories) will have a quota in favor of those who are the descendants of martyrs from the 1971 Liberation War.

It's the equivalent of party apparatchiks and elite in Ceceascu era Romania who had the pick of the litter for high paying civil service and public sector jobs.

This does not happen in developed countries, and in situations where biased hiring is found, you have a slam dunk corruption case.

There's a reason Leyen became a party politician and not a nameless civil servant.

> Where the hell did you get 6000 USD/year

From the Romanian government press release I linked - "The total monthly average income*) was, in nominal terms, 6634 lei per household and 2648 lei per person in quarter IV 2022."

Multiply that number by 4 (because it's quarters not month) and that the yearly average income.

Edit:

Good catch - I misread the data. Average income PER PERSON is around $6,000. Average HOUSEHOLD is around $12,000.

I still stand by my assertion though, because Mexico's average household income is around $12,000-15,000.

Can't reply to you OP (I think the flame war detector got a false positive) but yea you are right that the numbers I gave were wrong so I've added edit comments.

I don't use LLMs btw. I inherently distrust them. I just have these numbers imprinted in my mind because I have no life.



>This does not happen in developed countries

Yeah it does.

>and in situations where biased hiring is found, you have a slam dunk corruption case.

Except when you don't because that's what corruption does. Should I start listing every major German and Austrian corruption scandal where nobody got punished off the top of my head?

>From the Romanian government press release I linked - The total monthly average income) was, in nominal terms, 6634 lei per household and 2648 lei per person in quarter IV 2022.*

That's not at all what that document says. It explicitly and clearly says those numbers are for monthly wages with info gathered in a quarter. Are you using a LLM for this? Because you're wrong, I show you that you're wrong, yet keep doubling down on your mistakes. Check other sources too and you'll see.


Can reply to you now (or maybe actually working on a Friday helps).

I edited my response to take your VALID critiques into account. I appreciate it - we need to keep all of us internet commentators honest.




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