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> On the contrary: it’s yet another example of how profoundly anti-innovation America has become. You can ignore any article that uses popular recent news to i
by MichaelBurge 9y ago
> On the contrary: it’s yet another example of how profoundly anti-innovation America has become.
You can ignore any article that uses popular recent news to indicate a trend.
* Point out a recent popular item to ride on its success
* Class-baiting against the capitalists: They don't innovate, and they dodge taxes.
* Frame it as something Trump is working against
It looks like there's an argument like "The government should raise taxes on incompetent capitalists and fund basic research, since the money would otherwise go to juice machines", but I'm skeptical he's actually making an argument: It's more likely he's just telling people what they want to hear so they share his article.
If he was making a serious argument, he would've at least ran it by an economist or two so the reader would have something to follow up on.
- jamesrcole 9y agoI don't see any in-principle problem with using a recent example to illustrate a trend, as long as they back it up with other examples, statistics, research or whatever.