Re: attacking FSF [Re: Paid trolls

[Russ Allbery]

Snuffelluffogus <darkred@myway.com> writes:

>> One of the reasons for that is that low-wage service jobs are less
>> portable than middle-class technical jobs because the latter can be
>> done remotely and the former cannot.

> Don't pretend you're so intelligent you can be condescending,
> you're not.

Out of curiousity, what did you find condescending about the above
statement?  I honestly can't see anything condescending in there, and I
was not at all intending to be condescending.

> Everyone knows the purpose of protectionism is to protect jobs against
> just this kind of problem.

Hm.  I don't know that.  That's *one* purpose of protectionism, but I
thought that one of the other major purposes of protectionism was to
protect corporate profits and make more money for shareholders.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>