but the model is failing because the super rich (in which techies are over-represented) are helping break it!
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so make that ideological argument and show how that's happening if you believe that. I don't.
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you think that the richest people in this country pay their fair share and haven't exercised influence to lower taxes?
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You're in the right place to ask that question: New York, to all of Wall Street.
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well I'm in Cambridge at MIT so maybe I'm not at the right place. Or maybe I am.
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Ditch too-big-to-fail thinking, agricultural subsidies=plenty to keep R&D going. SV money is a rounding error in this pie chart.
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close tax loopholes and cut corporate welfare can accomplish the same. SV billionaires act as merit cover story for 1% smash and grab.
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the cover stories are often written by trusties trying to deflect blame directed at inherited wealth circles they identify with
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I'm really baffled by the one-sidedness of your view on this. You really see no way libertarianism leads to lower R&D investment?
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Where did I say that? You're making vague association between evils of inequality and R&D
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I'm saying libertarians know their history and make a good argument that the old model is broken even if it once worked
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Maybe. At least their interpretation is off base. The Cold War-era height of tech achievement they lionize was peak of command economy.
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Sure, but that's why people are wondering what models might pull off Apollo level stuff without creating new crony economy

