There are whole disciplines whose telos is now activism rather than knowledge production.

You linked a pdf but I'm not going to scroll 30 pages on a phone to figure out your cryptic statement

There are whole companies whose only goal is to make money for shareholders! Most people on HN work for them!

	▲	appreciatorBus 35 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yes. People working hard on problems that other people are willing to freely compensate them for is a good thing. Activism disguised as research is a bad thing.
	▲	expedition32 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		And those companies make money from government sponsored R&D. and educational pipelines.