Take National Honor Society, The “Who’s Who” lists, Phi Beta Kappa for example. There’s just something inherently wrong with the idea of getting nominated for some society for your good works (or rather, and more truthfully, a proverbial gold star for your résumé), only to have to pay to join.
But it’s not just pay to join most of the time- you have to keep on giving, long after you’re done, like college alumni. Then, prospective employers look at these memberships like they’re more merit based than pay-to-play.
Just venting about another weird component of our capitalistic corporate structure, and how coming from money (or in this case, dropping money on arbitrary memberships and titles) puts jobseekers at an unnatural advantage over their peers who may not have had the money or access to institutions that would allow them to join a pay-to-play clout club.
Just another convoluted caveat to what makes someone a more worthy job candidate that is based on mostly nothing of importance.
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