The rigour of their study is limited to parroting few often-repeated words here and there.
No it's run by the same billionaires that run everything else. You're mistaking the employees for the employers.
The reason they hire a certain subset of upper middle class liberal arts majors is because that's a group of people who study in order to learn their beliefs and gain their credentials, rather than to learn skills and accumulate experience. They'll have any opinion you tell them to have that isn't about an issue that affects themselves or their loved ones. Since they and their friends are upper middle class, very few things will ever affect them in a negative way other than disease, prejudice, or domestic violence. Oh, and mean people on twitter.
Which was ironic as several months before the tone deaf journos had been writing articles encouraging former coal mines to learn to code.
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Only GOP congressional baseball players are afraid of getting assassinated by Democrats.
Karma?