Thank you, boss. I accept all compliments! :-) And as for your query: does what happen a lot? Arguing against the person and that sort of thing? You would be surprised how prevalent it is. There ought to be a vaccination against it.
> And indeed I was bowled over by Joanne's extremely detailed and
> well-evidenced "argument" that free-workers are necessarily creatures of
> privilege, which is why literally the only words I wrote were "Of course
> you're a boomer”.
But did she really write “necessarily”? This is what she wrote in clarification of her first post:
> Some who work for free are desperate; some are the children of those who can afford to support the kid for another year or two until they can get the paying job.
I don’t see “necessarily” there. This seems a fairly sensible point to raise (see my earlier quote from Medawar). And fairly central I would think - in that it is a matter of isolating and thus stripping workers with some “privileges” (healthcare, collective bargaining capabilities, job security, so on).
—ravi