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More prosaic explanation: this "philosopher" (AKA dude with philosophy degree who was a management consultant for 20 years) is on a press tour for his new book.
by elefanten 5y ago
More prosaic explanation: this "philosopher" (AKA dude with philosophy degree who was a management consultant for 20 years) is on a press tour for his new book.
edit: Not that I disagree about the existence of the dynamic you point to.
- jjoonathan 5y agoI'm not entirely convinced that these are two different mechanisms. Think tanks, economists, political commentators, and politicians all experience strong selective pressure to promote opinions that people with influential money find agreeable. In turn, people with influential money tend to find agreeable opinions to be exactly those that deflect their taxes (or disadvantage labor, or look away from the externalities on which they have built their fortune, etc).
- elefanten 5y agoFair. Agree completely. But you do still have a wild mix of ambitions, commitments and incentives even among the wealthy/influential that frequently put them at odds with each other. Eg- Omidyar is backing the leaker vs. Zuckerberg -- billionaire contra billionaire. And there's definitely a class of super wealthy who are "class traitors" in the sense that they advocate against super wealth. (You could certainly doubt and debate whether they just support those messages or whether they also support good faith action to that end).
- medvezhenok 5y agoYup, Chomsky had the same observation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nBx-37c3c8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nBx-37c3c8