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Having qualifications yet being unable to find a job is the opposite of a failson. A failson has little to no qualifications yet “succeeds” anyway
What is a failson? Yunozan-2111 2025
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The private-school circuit feeds off fear of the failson, as families of means spend richly to ward off the vampiric nightmare: a leech on the family fortune.
Failson Nation Sarah Jones 2021
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Though the Roys have obvious elements of the Murdochs, Kendall arrived just in time for the era of the failson—Donald Trump, Jr., Hunter Biden—the “No. 1 boys” who’ll never measure up, nor lack a safety net to protect them from their own inadequacy.
Farewell, Kendall Roy Michael Schulman 2023
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