On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Michael Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 12:41:56 -0500 > raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > But try to reconcile that with this piece of vitriol that comes > > earlier on: > > > > > Colleges and universities clamor greedily these days for > > > pharmaceutical patents and ownership chunks of high-tech startups; > > > they boast of being “entrepreneurial”; they have rationalized and > > > outsourced countless aspects of their operations in the search for > > > cash; they fight their workers nearly as ferociously as a > > > nineteenth-century railroad baron; and the richest among them have > > > turned their endowments into in-house hedge funds. > > > > > Now, consider the seventeen-year-old customer against whom this > > > predatory institution squares off. > > I don't understand. Is any of that untrue? > Of course it is not untrue. Untruths are easy to answer. These are half-truths and exaggerations. Kind of like saying that the USA is a military dictatorship where citizens are under pervasive surveillance, and dissidents are detained without trial, tortured and convicted in show trials. Not untrue, just grossly exaggerated to the point of being misleading that's all. -raghu.
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