Actually in comics/wuxia/marvel whichever fictional world, also is nepotism and

[Imboredtodeath]

money and looks help win everything

iron man - money and lao peh
yang guo - god father teach him things and huang rong teach him studies, good looking
naruto - lao peh is hokage, what hard work?

knnbccb all is reflect real life

ok la only wei xiao bao supposed to be not good looking but very smart la. but he also use many guanxi and his shifu all is use him and all about money and power

[Kok loeng]

Where got

U see matrix

U see john wick

Where nepotism

[Suntan]

Now world guided by human greed.
Whether nepotism or meritocracy. Pte company run & driven by profit.
But annot hv country run like Corporation. People will suffer.

[Nemesis Alien]

In anime and manhua, its depicted that all problems comes from humans. Greed, nepoism, etc all from humans.

[Heng Su]

Boruto also laopeh hokage