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Monopoly II: The Doer-Describer Problem — Muckrakers, The Standard View & Buffett (the Opioid Profiteer?) clipping

Posted on December 1st, 2020

The following is an excerpt from a larger work in progress, tentatively titled Intelligence Hath No Party. I plan to post a working draft at IntelHathNoParty.com in the near future.Who Shall We Hang Today? (Or, Why Bad Solutions Lead to Bigger Problems) "the basis of popular government during a revolution is both virtue and terror; virtue, without which terror is baneful; terror, without which virtue is powerless. Terror is nothing m...

Monopoly I: (Re)Normalizing Bad Arguments —USA v. Google clipping

Posted on December 1st, 2020

Clip source: Monopoly I: (Re)Normalizing Bad Arguments —USA v. Google Monopoly I: (Re)Normalizing Bad Arguments —USA v. Google Neither I nor my firm own shares in Google. I do not have any ties to (nor do I desire to be an apologist for) Google. This piece is the first in a series which uses the topic of monopolies to discuss consequences of faulty and often partisan arguments. Foremost, when you use bad arguments for your purposes...