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by robtaylor 1213 days ago
old man shouts at cloud
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Really old man it seems. He says “those of us who grew up in an age before the absurd legal fiction of Corporate Personhood” which puts him at well over 180 years old in the US.
Yeah, that part really threw me. It really made it seem the author had no idea what the concept of corporate personhood meant.
*she
Ok, that made me laugh. Well done.
Yeah, if I were NYTimes, I would pay a kill fee for that op-ed too :). Doesn't matter if there's valid source ideas, its writing is so poor and voice so immature.
I'm in my early 40s myself, so a gen X-er as they define it, but I'd say it's not only "old man shouts at clouds" thing, as I've stumbled upon lots of people whom I supposed were younger than me (and I suppose part of the gen Z age-cohort) and who were against this entire consoome mindset. I'd say it's the millennials who were the most affected by it (one of the many similarities between the millennial and the boomer age-cohort).