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Khan has never been employed by a business nor ever run a business. She's never had to meet a payroll, nor prepared a P&L statement. Her entire career has been
by WalterBright 24d ago
Khan has never been employed by a business nor ever run a business. She's never had to meet a payroll, nor prepared a P&L statement. Her entire career has been spent in research, academia, public policy, and government oversight.
- adestefan 24d agoSo what.
- WalterBright 24d agoTheory and practice are different things.
- collingreen 24d agoAnd therefore shouldn't be allowed to have opinions on crime and antitrust? Is that your argument?
- int3 24d agoduh? why would you want someone with no experience making decisions?
- seemaze 24d agoDepends on if you're referring to experience defrauding the American public, or protecting the American public. That can have different answers depending on what which side of the transaction you sit.
- throwaway_7274 24d agoWhat does experience mean? Does only private-sector experience "count?" Should we remove Alito from the bench on those grounds?
- WalterBright 24d ago> What does experience mean? Oh, the tiresome word definition game again. No thanks. > Does only private-sector experience "count?" Why did you feel the need to insert "only"?
- tzs 24d agoShe has experience in the relevant areas. It is quite common for experience in X itself to be quite different from the experience that is useful in dealing with X in some different context. Most oncologists have no experience with actually having cancer themselves. A majority of aircraft mechanics are not pilots. Only a small percentage of referees in most major professional sports leagues have every played that sport professionally themselves. Most patent lawyers are not inventors.
- WalterBright 24d agoI worked for Boeing designing aircraft parts. I am not a pilot. I worked at the direction of my boss, who was a pilot. He was the gatekeeper of my work. He'd also take me up flying, and would let me try the controls a bit. I trusted and valued his pilot's judgement. Many other engineers at Boeing were also pilots. Friends of mine are pilots. My father was a combat pilot in two wars. Airplane mechanics have very little decision making power. They go strictly by the book. I worked on writing instructions for the mechanics who would be maintaining and checking my gearbox design. It went into excruciating detail. I would wager that the better mechanics were ones who were pilots, as they'd know in their bones how important their job was.
- WalterBright 24d agoI have some patents, and I worked with patent lawyers to file them. The patent lawyers didn't understand diddly squat about my inventions. They knew how to fill out the required forms, though.
- WalterBright 24d agoEverybody has opinions. That doesn't mean those opinions are based on reality.
- moribvndvs 24d agoSo is the solution to only nominate corporate bagmen who have a perverse incentive?
- dnautics 24d agoNo. Nominate a pissed off insider who knows how things work from personal experience and an axe to grind!
- throwaway_7274 24d agoLina Khan has never eaten breakfast cereal out of a boot, nor even a shoe.
- tzs 24d agoNone of those things you list that she has never done help in any meaningful way with understanding antitrust law.
- WalterBright 24d agoRunning a business is a rude awakening for anyone who hasn't done it. Like a ballet critic who has never taken a ballet class. Or a commander who has never been shot at. Or a sailor who has never been at sea. Mayors Katie Wilson and Mandami have never run a business, or worked for a business, and it shows. How can one regulate a business without ever being in the trenches?
- tzs 24d ago> Like a ballet critic who has never taken a ballet class. In this case though it would be more like an inspector checking that the changes made to modify a building to house a ballet studio follow code has not taken a ballet class.
- anonymous_user9 24d ago> Mandami have never run a business, or worked for a business, and it shows. In record-high approval ratings, multiple reforms supported by small businesses, and fast progress on many huge initiatives?
- WalterBright 24d agoWhat happened to the free busses? And his unsustainable budget?
- anonymous_user9 23d agoWhat happened to the remaining 39 months of his term? Are you saying he should've instantly fulfilled every campaign promise the moment he took office?
- dwaltrip 23d agoGod forbid someone focuses their work on the public good.