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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8254842" data-attributes="member: 18">You're confusing two different terms - &quot;Old Boys Network&quot; or &quot;Old Boys Club&quot; and &quot;Good Old Boys&quot;. They are not related or connected, and the thing you've constructed and are saying doesn't exist isn't the meaning of either.The Old Boys Network is not &quot;entrenched members of the industry engage in heavy gatekeeping to monopolize all the profit&quot;. I dunno what the term for that is, but it's not the Old Boys Network. The Old Boys Network means that it's highly beneficial to have been educated at certain places, to know certain people and so on. There's no active gatekeeping, no active attempts to &quot;monopolize all the profit&quot;. That's patently ridiculous.That's an extremely good definition of an Old Boys Network. I dunno what this &quot;Good Old Boy&quot; nonsense is about, sounds extremely American and Southern, but I know a lot about Old Boys Networks (from the inside too), and what you're describing there is an Old Boys Network. Helping people because you know them and like them is exactly what this sort of network is about.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8254842, member: 18"] You're confusing two different terms - "Old Boys Network" or "Old Boys Club" and "Good Old Boys". They are not related or connected, and the thing you've constructed and are saying doesn't exist isn't the meaning of either. The Old Boys Network is not "entrenched members of the industry engage in heavy gatekeeping to monopolize all the profit". I dunno what the term for that is, but it's not the Old Boys Network. The Old Boys Network means that it's highly beneficial to have been educated at certain places, to know certain people and so on. There's no active gatekeeping, no active attempts to "monopolize all the profit". That's patently ridiculous. That's an extremely good definition of an Old Boys Network. I dunno what this "Good Old Boy" nonsense is about, sounds extremely American and Southern, but I know a lot about Old Boys Networks (from the inside too), and what you're describing there is an Old Boys Network. Helping people because you know them and like them is exactly what this sort of network is about. [/QUOTE]

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