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Re:The Two Middle Classes by ska on Saturday February 29, 2020 @07:39PM (#22454288)
This is a publication with a long history of presenting both interesting and sloppy thinking, sometimes in the same article. It tends to value libertarian (or -ish) takes relatively uncritically, and have some bizarre obsessions (by which I mean, topics taken up with a frequency all out of proportion to any impact).

That isn't to say they aren't worth reading, but that this article is flawed in a characteristic way.

Re:The Two Middle Classes by modwest on Saturday February 29, 2020 @07:55PM (#22454356)
Yeah this essay is a mess. Smacks of sociopolitical myth-making, not credible analysis. The thing it seems most like is a vehicle to lump scientists into the same category as religious figures. Bare tribalism wearing the clothes of public intellectualism