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Why does this article pretend that we collectively made a decision to punish professors and not that the effect of supply and demand in a free market is the cau
by Simple_Guy 8y ago
Why does this article pretend that we collectively made a decision to punish professors and not that the effect of supply and demand in a free market is the cause?
- GavinMcG 8y agoIt's absurd how many examples of the collective action problem are treated this way every day, on HN or in media more broadly.
- marcus_holmes 8y agothe article itself does a pretty good job of listing all the other cases where a previously respected and well paid profession has been affected by market forces. Of course, it ascribes malicious intent for all of them, too. I think the paragraph about journalism was probably the most pertinent. No-one decided to relabel journalism as "content" to be produced by designated "content providers". Pre-internet only journalists had a way of publishing their opinions. Post-internet everyone does. The simple law of supply and demand means that opinions are less valuable now.
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]