Karol Skorek: With nepotism in Poland we will not win with silence

Karol Skorek, president of SPIR SWOJAK and the creator of the initiative “Your own to your own”, speaks out again what many think, but cannot put into words.

This time it aims at nepotism – a silent but systemic illness of Polish public life. In his speech he makes it clear:

"Unfortunately, our mediocre country has no luck with the elite. To put it mildly, the more correct word would be that we are governed by pseudo-elites.”

The difference between elite and pseudo-elite? The skin does not wrap in cotton:

"Elyths follow any higher values, they want to build a reality better than the 1 inherited from their ancestors. On the another hand, pseudo-elites are guided solely by their own peculiar interest.”

This implies nepotism – the request to fill a "mature family" on "comfortable stools", as Skorek put it. And he adds:

"When specified a negative selection of staff takes place, the state and the economy starts to function badly."

In his opinion, this cancer has 4 main areas: the military, local governments, universities and companies of the State Treasury. And although the diagnosis is acute, Skorek does not halt at criticism – it proposes 3 circumstantial actions.

First of all, laughter and publicize.

“We must talk about nepotism and mock it. We request to make social force on those employed after we know each other."

An example of a affirmative initiative is simply a fanpage documenting household arrangements at the Lublin University of Technology:

"This is simply a healthy example for me of mocking nepotism in Poland. I hope for more specified initiatives."

Second: Exchange of elites – above all at urns. As he points out:

"It is not my function to tell you who to vote for. Here it is worth to act according to your own conscience and discernment.”

Third: amendments to the Labour Code. Skorek notes that the current law not only protects employees, but also... hopeless managers:

“From any unusual cultural raids no 1 in this country wants to remove executives who have no leadership predisposition.”

Effect? Good employees leave companies through bad bosses, and pathologies perpetuate.

Finally, Skorek urges:

“I want myself and you a meritocracy. Let us hope we are not ruled by mediocrity, petty frauds, quirks, nicodemy.”

And leaves a ray of hope:

"May we be governed by professional, just, able and hardworking units. I know hope is the parent of fools. Let us be optimistic, however, that 1 day this time of improvement and change will come."

This material is another Skork voice on building a healthier state – not through declarations, but through concrete, social force and real elections. As always – without wrapping, without illusions, but with religion that it can be different.