If so, you may wish to share this essay with your students as part of a lesson on identifying and classifying logical fallacies and spinning facts.
But maybe you won't, because you live in your mother's basement and subsist on stolen Cheetos. Communist. Some highlights:
To every one – particularly the geniuses calling themselves “progressive writers and poets” – echoing this load of nonsense: are you crazy or stupid?
I’m not going to deny that Amazon is an 800 lb gorilla or that Amazon is a corporation.
Okay, some of you are also living in the insulated ghettos of academia and/or media, where no knowledge of business need intrude.
Look up how print runs have fallen since the seventies. No, it’s not TV. News flash: There was TV in the seventies too.
If the lot of you who are posting this nonsense can’t each of you chip in five dollars and get the five thousand or so to start your own model, you don’t have the courage of your convictions.
Not surprising. You’re not creative enough to come up with a competing model, you say? You need government to curb Amazon’s excesses?
Places that don’t have property rights also have no other rights. And you won’t be able to do anything, because government, unlike Amazon, has the power to enforce its edicts, and you can’t REALLY set up a competing government. (No matter what your courses in revolutionary justice told you.)
So… are you crazy or stupid? There’s evidence in favor of both. You’re crazy if you’re repeating this meme to appear cool and hip and you have no clue where it will lead.
This will shock you but most traditional publishers are international corporations, btw.
You want to take us back to the bad old days. And you call yourself progressive. And the irony hasn’t KILLED you yet.
Maybe you are the kind that publishers would have pushed, and you know that your writing in fact stinks on ice and that this is the only way you can make a living.
But maybe you won't, because you live in your mother's basement and subsist on stolen Cheetos. Communist. Some highlights:
To every one – particularly the geniuses calling themselves “progressive writers and poets” – echoing this load of nonsense: are you crazy or stupid?
I’m not going to deny that Amazon is an 800 lb gorilla or that Amazon is a corporation.
Okay, some of you are also living in the insulated ghettos of academia and/or media, where no knowledge of business need intrude.
Look up how print runs have fallen since the seventies. No, it’s not TV. News flash: There was TV in the seventies too.
If the lot of you who are posting this nonsense can’t each of you chip in five dollars and get the five thousand or so to start your own model, you don’t have the courage of your convictions.
Not surprising. You’re not creative enough to come up with a competing model, you say? You need government to curb Amazon’s excesses?
Places that don’t have property rights also have no other rights. And you won’t be able to do anything, because government, unlike Amazon, has the power to enforce its edicts, and you can’t REALLY set up a competing government. (No matter what your courses in revolutionary justice told you.)
So… are you crazy or stupid? There’s evidence in favor of both. You’re crazy if you’re repeating this meme to appear cool and hip and you have no clue where it will lead.
This will shock you but most traditional publishers are international corporations, btw.
You want to take us back to the bad old days. And you call yourself progressive. And the irony hasn’t KILLED you yet.
Maybe you are the kind that publishers would have pushed, and you know that your writing in fact stinks on ice and that this is the only way you can make a living.