Captain Gh3y
Rhinorhondothackasaurus
We should be able to test this theory with a simple example of one of the areas your list in bold to one example of a more lucrative career._dhj_ said:Of course those who choose to be academics and to teach rather than go into more lucrative career paths in private industry that ultimately yield lower positive social externalities will tend to possess a left wing 'bias'. Likewise those that tend to focus on the importance of history, politics, philosophy, psychology etc. will be relatively more left-leaning compared to those that lecture in economics, statistics, accounting, finance etc. Arguably, intellectuals are more likely to possess a left-wing stance than others. There is no conspiracy to indoctrinate. It's purely a result of natural selection.
Historian vs. Petroleum Geologist.
Historian writes a book; benefit to humanity = ????
Petroleum geologist does what those guys do; benefit to humanity = humans not living in pre-industrial conditions
or maybe something like
benefit of marxist economic philosophy = communism, and also plenty of nice arguments in universities
benefit of an economic philosophy based on of division of labour, pursuit of self interest, and freedom of trade = humans not living in pre-industrial conditions
also
result of not studying science = using 'natural selection' somewhere it makes no sense