>This whole blog post has shades of anti-intellectualism that creeps me out a bit - that assume that the intelligentsia must be malicious I don't agree. I thin

>This whole blog post has shades of anti-intellectualism that creeps me out a bit - that assume that the intelligentsia must be malicious I don't agree. I think the point of the article is about the nature of the exchange. >in this supposed bargain, what we give the professionals is concrete and clearly valuable, while what they give us (over what we’d get without the deal) is vague and very hard for us to check. and >There is actually no bargain, there is just the rest of us submitting to professionals’ prestige. Cheaper yet outcome-effective substitutes to expensive professionals have long been physically available, and yet we have mostly not chosen those substitutes due to our eagerness to affiliate with prestigious professionals. I don't see an argument to change regulatory structures in the article.