Similar in other fields, too, like econ. I suspect a lot of people just pretend to be conservatives to get ahead.
That's a good point. I was thinking of science, and how the false presumption that experts on either side of an issue are necessarily equal can be found in many scientific policy discussions like teaching evolution/creationism, climate change denial, vaccines causing autism, etc. The mere fact that you
have a position that can be profitable or otherwise beneficial to someone else, and you have some basic qualifications, puts
I sometimes regret not paying them their $10 membership fee. It would have lubricated the first few steps of my career like
@senri at a Bircher convention.
Depends on if you believe in there being any sort of comeuppance in the universe.
Came for the Trotsky tears, leaving with a full glass knowing he made that statement even after Apple and Google became the largest corporations in the worlds history during God Savior Obama's term...TDS ensures I will never get bored of reading these forums.
Good lord, you're stupid. You could have chosen any number of spurious anecdotes to try to make a point, but you chose the fact that two transnational corporations hadn't been broken up (which could in fact represent a problem of insufficient antitrust enforcement, so I will wait for you to make that argument since I'm not aware of any overly controversial antitrust wins by Apple or Google) as some sort of reason to further strip away regulation and allow them to get bigger, become more exploitative, avoid more taxes, exert more power over government and society, etc. Also, even setting aside Obama's unfortunate continuation of recent decades' laxness on antitrust, neither Google nor Apple are anywhere near the anticompetitive forces of Standard Oil and US Steel before them: they just have access to an entire world market.
Also, I think you're using "reading" somewhat liberally.
