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This is lazy thinking. Trying to smuggle the power into the concept of 'effective employment' doesn't do much to fix the issue if you're honest about it. You n
by ABCLAW 9y ago
This is lazy thinking. Trying to smuggle the power into the concept of 'effective employment' doesn't do much to fix the issue if you're honest about it.
You need power to fire people you directly employ, let alone researchers at third party think-tanks.
Would google be 'effectively employing' this researcher if their contribution to New America made up less than 2% of their revenues rather than over half?
- fauigerzigerk 9y agoYes you do need power to do what Google has done. But having the power to control a think-tank of that size does not require an industry to be nearly as concentrated as online advertising currently is. [Edit] Just think about how much you would have to reduce concentration in any industry so that no corporation is large enough to fund a think-tank and have someone fired. Even if you did that, corporations with shared interests could join together to do the same thing one larger corporation would otherwise have done. It wouldn't be the first time.