the nice thing about this thread is that vimonthy is an amiable stoner whose only ambition in life is to make enough momey to keep him in skunk and guinness while nomadologist is in the employ of babylon manufact5uring propaganda for big pharma and seems to be mainly concerend with telling everyone a)how much money s/he earns and b) telling everyone how big her/his IQ is....
makes me laugh
a) I do not, nor did I ever, work for "big pharma". I worked for a medical education/medical publishing company as a program manager and writer. I no longer work there, because I didn't like dealing with big pharma to the extent I was called upon to do so. Way to make ridiculous assumptions about someone's life based on gross misreadings of their posts, though. Bravo.
b) I only ever brought up how much money I made in the context of an argument where Vimothy tried to claim (you know, the old Social Darwinist fallacy) that in a free market economy, people get paid according to their intelligence level--that intelligence and skill are rewarded by capitalism, rather than privilege and already-held social capital. He seriously tried to claim that the poor are poor because they are not as intelligent as the wealthy. This is patently absurd, as I'm sure you know. I knew that I probably made far more than Vimothy did, so
according to his own ideas, I thought it would be funny to point out that a loony leftist like me is far smarter than he is. Of course, I disagree with this line of reasoning and find it absurd.
THE WHOLE POINT of the things I said in these discussions was to make fun of how ABSURD Vimothy's way of thinking is by being INTENTIONALLY ABSURD. Unfortunately, the irony seems to have been lost on some of the dimmer ones among us. Shrug.
Vimothy also tried to argue along with the racist Saletan in the thread about the Bell Curve that white people have higher IQs than black people. (And that Ashkenazi Jews are "more intelligent" than other whites, a claim that any biologist would treat with the utmost scorn and find repulsive in the extreme.) He also correlated (along with others in the thread) high IQ scores with later wealth and success in life. This is also patently absurd.
Our friend Vimothy may be a stoner, but he has been far from amiable for a long long time around here, spewing some of the most hateful views I've read on the internet by someone who fancies themselves knowledgeable about economics and international relations.