You are a likeable guy too. Can I prevail upon you to accept
that your arguments are illogical, or if not illogical, are
predicated upon belief that values arbitary control by a few
self annointed bureaucrats? Academic heaven to be sure!
Material Fellow wrote:
>>> If we knowledge workers can't get paid for what we know and create, then
> there is no point in a knowledge based life.
>
Fine, let them own patents. But why should anyone own patents
paid for at taxpayer expense. Do you advocate an arbitraty
system of elite mandarins?
> Universities aren't stupid. They know how to do cost accounting as well
> as any business. The conversion of Universities to businesses was well
> under way following the Hippie revolts (demand that students be treated
> as customers) and the post Apollo moon landing technical depression.
Fine, let them operate as a business. However, by the same token,
ordinary business in any legitimate sense does not use tax money
to fund ownership of intellectual property on a massive scale.
WHo elects academis to use the power of the state to put a gun
to everyon else's head, in order to fund their own business schemes?
Regards,
Marc Andelman
