IF this idiot professor had lived when Edison was around, she would be complaining that Edison is ‘putting candle makers & kerosene lamp makers out of business’.
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While ignoring the poor downtrodden immigrant Nikola Tesla who invented AC current and actually drove those folks into a niche business ...
The longer I live the less confidence and respect I have for academics and other "experts." Having been educated in what is now called STEM from lower school through High School I was not only prepared for college without any need for remedial catch up. All relevant to claim a modest ability to separate the BS from the real world.
I am reading a book which promised much and is delivering Marxism in the most repulsive and arrogant way possible.
Your statement triggered the probability that this book may be the third Book in my entire life that I will refuse to finish. Because it mirrors the nonsense of it : that poverty causes criminality, that those criminals had no choice, no part in the Social Contract.
That government must set thing right is always the temptation, and soon after adding that, the author writes the only thing of value to me, referring to the creators of Weapons of Math Destruction, mathematicians and statisticians, but more fittingly applied to elected criminals. "When Government fails at everything it tries, (Obama) before asking them to do better, we have to admit they can't do everything."
The name of the (non-fiction) book is Weapons of Math Destruction, Cathy O'Neil, Broadway Books, Crown Publishing Group, 2017