Been idly compiling a “billionaire political ideologies” dossier (Koch, Soros, Mercer, Thiel...) Starting to think billionaire-vs-billionaire is not the best way for a society to do its political thinking How do you advance political thought without billionaire $ fueling it?
That’s what public funded universities have been for 70 years Now getting dismantled
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meh. taxpayer funded institutions like universities are too sclerotic to drive change. i'm thinking publications like mother jones. prob must be a direct to consumer product, otherwise how to get middle class mindshare.
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They weren’t always. I just meant them as existence proof that ideological thought development need not be wealthy-funded. Other examples: early monastic orders of most religions, before institutionalizations and patronage kick in.
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