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Re:The evolution of nepotism in academia, 1088-1800 by esperent on Friday November 08, 2024 @09:45PM (#42092192)
Even in the family business, there should be limits. What if the family business becomesand empire worth >20% of a contries GDP - e.g. Samsung. It is absolutely not reasonable to pass this amount of wealth to children of the founder.
Re:The evolution of nepotism in academia, 1088-1800 by SoftTalker on Friday November 08, 2024 @11:04PM (#42092467)
Samsung is a public company no? It's not family-owned as far as I can see.
Re:The evolution of nepotism in academia, 1088-1800 by maeil on Saturday November 09, 2024 @12:06AM (#42092659)
This is correct money-wise. Samsung Group's market cap is around $400-500 billion, while its chairman (the family head) is estimated to be worth $10-15 billion.

It's not as correct decision-making influence-wise. The power balance of "family vs remaining shareholders" is different from what would be assumed purely based on those numbers.

It can be said that Samsung C&T is the actual head subsidiary/control vehicle through which the other subsidiaries are run at the top level, and the family is easily the biggest shareholder in C&T.

The KOSPI, which is what the subsidiaries are listed on (the "group" is not listed), is seen as a bit of a joke by both foreign and domestic investors for that reason. Besides its obvious downsides, it does have upsides as well - the "sacrifice everything for the short-term stock price" that is the norm in the US is less common in Korea for this reason. Corporations work differently.

Re:The evolution of nepotism in academia, 1088-1800 by achierius on Saturday November 09, 2024 @02:10AM (#42092976)
Samsung is not a family business in the legal sense of the term: it has shareholders and is thus nominally accountable to the public.