But SV types also want good education funded by the state. It may serve their narrow interest in the first instance but overall it's a good thing.
Anthony DCosta Professor of Indian Studies Asia Research Centre Copenhagen Business School Sent from my iPhone On Jun 13, 2013, at 5:55 PM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: >> Morgan, Rothschild, Rockefeller? wouldn't "Murdoch" -- or something >> else, such as "corporate" -- be a better term to speak to folks >> outside of the self-defined left? or how about the "Steve Jobs press"? >> they treat him like a demigod, even though he was an >> anti-philanthropist and a tax-evader. > > > > The universal adoration of Steve Jobs is a sociological phenomenon worth > thinking about in some detail. His appeal to the Ayn Rand set is obvious > enough, but even Occupy Wall Street protesters held candle-light vigils on > his death. Why? Clearly he represents the meritocratic ideal, the good > capitalist, the anti-thesis of the corrupt, crony-capitalists represented by > Goldman Sachs. But is there something more? Personal charisma? A compelling > story as a comeback-kid? > > In my experience there is a strongly and widely shared libertarian streak > among the Silicon Valley techie crowd. Are there any good studies of this? > -raghu. > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
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