Or maybe, the fact that the overwhelming number of smart people working on making new ideas, new medications, making society better, are left wing is a really good indication that this is a much better approach?
It's amazing to me that it never occurs to people on the right that when the smartest people around all pretty much agree on reality they aren't actually wrong.
The right treats science just like antivaxers treat medicine. Doctors are evil. Until you get cancer and then the doctor does anything to your body to maybe make it better.
Let's hate all the academics and denounce them all the time, but wow, isn't it nice when another disease is cured, when my phone works better, when grandma lives for a few more years? Who do you think does the work to make sure that our fighters, bombs, drones are better than those of Russia or China? All the right wants is benefits that only the left can give them while hating us. Just like with doctors.
It's really intellectually dishonest. And I'm personally really tired of it.
>>Or maybe, the fact that the overwhelming number of smart people working on making new ideas, new medications, making society better, are left wing is a really good indication that this is a much better approach?
Business owners are doing all of those things, and more than half of them are right wing. [1] The average Republican has a higher income than the average Democrat, and this is despite staunchly pro-Democrat voting blocs like public sector unions enjoying much higher income than the general population due to rent seeking. [2]
If intelligence led to left-wing views, then the business world would be totally left-wing, and higher income would be correlated with having left-wing views.
I believe the fact that academia is so overwhelmingly left-wing is explained by its alliance with government (coercive state power) and the typical effects of dogmatic groupthink that manifests whenever a group has a strong economic interest in a particular ideology becoming dominant.
>Let's hate all the academics and denounce them all the time, but wow, isn't it nice when another disease is cured, when my phone works better, when grandma lives for a few more years?
Academics contribute enormously to society, which is precisely why I so strongly denounce the corruption of academia by the financial conflict of interest and ideological groupthink created by ideologically rationalized union rent-seeking.
Business owners do not create new medications. Academics do. Business owners manage them.
I don't understand. Is this some variant of a conspiracy theory? All academics are working together to groupthink their way to the left?
Or maybe. Seriously. The smart people in the room. Who dedicate their lives to improving the world. All pretty much, no matter what subject they study, come to the conclusion that the left is the correct choice while the right is destructive (see the fact that we've set best records this week).
Stop looking for conspiracies. Most faculty members are not unionized. And this varies a lot by country. Yet, in the US where we aren't unionized (in most states), in Canada where some are unionized, in the UK where are all unionized, in Italy where I think they aren't, etc. Everyone agrees with this basic fact.
Business owners obviously don't contribute to humanity the same way scientists do, but they do contribute nonetheless. And that's demonstrated by how much higher quality of life is in countries that allow private business ownership.
And in terms of innovations that contribute to improving the human condition: massive amounts of such innovation are required in and produced by business, in mundane activities that don't follow any formal process.
Recognizing the value others provide would help you develop greater humility and a more realistic outlook on the world.
And nothing I forwarded was a conspiracy theory. Groupthink is not the same thing as a conspiracy.
