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Who is Jane Galt?
A profile, hat tip to Virginia Postrel and Eve Tushnet.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on April 21, 2007 at 08:05 AM in Web/Tech | Permalink
Comments
Before reaidng the profile I would have thought the only reasonable answer would be "who cares?". After reading it that feeling is only strengthend.
Posted by: Matt at Apr 21, 2007 8:42:03 AM
She's really not blogging in her blog eh? :D
Posted by: Chewxy at Apr 21, 2007 9:05:36 AM
What I like about her background is that being exploited by her employer
led her to join a movement that believes that such exploitation does not exist.
Posted by: spencer at Apr 21, 2007 9:16:21 AM
You sour buggers. The lass is a breezy, bracing Good Thing.
Posted by: dearieme at Apr 21, 2007 10:29:58 AM
The 'lass' shows a continual inability to tell the difference between anecdote and evidence, among other sins. This pretty much overwhels whatever virtue her "breeziness" or "bracing" might bring.
Posted by: Matt at Apr 21, 2007 11:11:55 AM
women...
Posted by: adrian at Apr 21, 2007 11:38:51 AM
I used to read her blog regularly, but after a while I realized that she really doesn't know what she's talking about. And doesn't much care. Her standard justifications used to be (may still be) "a former prof said" and "I have some friends who know something about this, and they say..."
Pretty weak.
Posted by: Bernard Yomtov at Apr 21, 2007 9:09:35 PM
I loved it, thanks! :)
Posted by: J. at Apr 22, 2007 9:39:37 AM
i'm pretty much in love with megan. she is pretty cute too.
Posted by: eric at Apr 22, 2007 4:12:19 PM
erics sentiments seem to be those of a large number of guys on her comment threads... does anybody really care what she has to actually say? i dont think so
Posted by: adrian at Apr 22, 2007 5:05:34 PM
Megan built a following before images of her were widely known as far as I can tell
Posted by: sort_of_knowledgeable at Apr 22, 2007 5:49:49 PM
Eric, you know that there are two different Megans, right? And the libertarian Megan is not the water-dork Megan.
So which of us do you think is prettier?
Posted by: Megan at Apr 23, 2007 12:47:53 AM
Eric, don't actually answer that. I was teasing you, but on reflection, it isn't funny.
Posted by: Megan at Apr 23, 2007 12:56:09 AM
Spencer, we don't believe that exploitation doesn't exist; we just believe its rarely a stable equilibrium, which is why I no longer work for PIRG . . .
Posted by: Jane Galt at Apr 23, 2007 9:55:58 AM
Or, as JK Galbraith put it, 'Under Capitalism man exploits man. Under Socialism the reverse is true.
And I think Megan is cute as well as smart.
Posted by: Patrick R. Sullivan at Apr 23, 2007 3:18:38 PM
she is quite pretty all right
Posted by: adrian at Apr 23, 2007 4:09:11 PM
maybe an eight or less by US standards, a seven by european.
Posted by: adrian at Apr 23, 2007 4:14:09 PM
If you don't think that female intellectuals face significant discrimination, I advise you to read and ponder this comment thread.
Posted by: Tyler Cowen at Apr 23, 2007 8:47:13 PM
sorry
Posted by: adrian at Apr 24, 2007 5:29:45 AM
Tyler,
Agree with your comment. This turned into something worse than the most smelly-socks,
stinky-jockstrap, locker room discussion.
Posted by: Barkley Rosser at Apr 24, 2007 1:09:33 PM
I have a problem with people who twist the truth: She lies about having allergies so that restaurants will omit ingredients that she doesn't like.
Where are Rachel Lucas and Tanya? http://www.redsugar.com/muse/
Tyler: A few comments do not mean significant discrimination...
Posted by: EarlW at Apr 25, 2007 12:38:24 AM
How many blog threads about male intellectuals have you seen in which nearly half of the comments have contained significant debate about the subject's looks?
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