Let's say you've got a youngster keen on gaining a tenure track position. He/she's got a gaggle of post-grad degrees from the finest schools, and is eminently qualified for that tenure track post at a top institution.
Unfortunately, there are at least 101 equally qualified candidates available for every tenure track position.
It's an embarrassment of riches for the university. Which candidate will pass muster?
The candidate who ticks all the boxes?
Or the candidate who ticks all the boxes, and their uncle just endowed a chair in the economics department to the tune of fifty million dollars?
Hmm...
It's a lot like Lance Stroll and his F-1 career. Lance can obviously drive a F-1 car, but is there a serious person on the planet who imagines that he'd be driving one if Daddy wasn't rich?
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