My understanding is that, while nepotism is one’s birthright, it has long been the case that a certain amount of tact in deploying it has been demanded. Especially if tactlessness could threaten the interests of your peers (in this case, Booker’s political ambitions and the value of other shareholders’ positions). If anything, while contemporary media saturation makes exposure risk somewhat higher, any number of decorum-crazed decadent aristocracies placed much heavier demands on their members’ behavior, when dealing with others of similar status. We even have a genre of celebrities drawn from the misbehaving children of assorted dynasties. That’s downright libertine by historical standards.
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