> "This is the role of government in this case - to protect the little guy from being taken advantage of by the big guy." That narrative is nonsense. The gover

> "This is the role of government in this case - to protect the little guy from being taken advantage of by the big guy." That narrative is nonsense. The government mainly protects the big guys and takes advantage of the little guys. That's what the banking bailout was. That's what a lot of Wall Street is today. When nobody can use force on anybody else to get their way, we are all players in a market. Our society has gotten very, very far away from that ideal. > But what you can't argue about is that the knowledge of the tiers must be made public. You are just making an assertion without any principle to back it up. I think people who produce knowledge should be free to sell it in whatever way they want, per whatever agreement they come up with with their customers. In this case it's more complicated, as the people producing knowledge (University of Michigan) are doing it via government handouts. In such a sitauation, there is no "right" or "wrong" except for the government to stop bossing people around.