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> And Giles is simply their mouthpiece. You may want to insert an "unwitting" in front of "mouthpiece" (assuming that's what you meant); otherwise, you're maki
by briandh 12y ago
> And Giles is simply their mouthpiece.
You may want to insert an "unwitting" in front of "mouthpiece" (assuming that's what you meant); otherwise, you're making a pretty serious claim, and need to back it up.
- cam_l 12y agoThe rule of thumb I use in situations like this is an aphorism I heard a while back (by some mathematician) which basically said that the best description of any system is its results. I find it extremely helpful in these sorts of situations to judge the system, not the particular actors within it, or the mixture of rationality, conspiracy, stupidity, or dumb luck which is employed to create it. It seems he is making a far bigger leap in discounting Picketty's thesis, with the information we have at hand, than Picketty was in creating it. So it doesn't matter whether Giles is unwitting or not (except perhaps from his own point of view) he is acting as a mouthpiece.