We should not forget that different people have different talents. That creative superstar guy may have been great at coming up with new stuff but terrible at maintaining stuff. Or at debugging some urgent prod issue under time stress on a saturday evening. You need those people too that enjoy the day-to-day maintenance to keep the house clean, or the occasional firefighting. A good team contains all those types and they complement each other.
Sorry, but proof of stake makes the concept even more nonsensical than it was before.
Of course I disapprove of old school banking scams as well. Beyond that, I won't engage in your whataboutism. It's not making the crypto pyramid schemes any better.
Then you are halfway to realizing how extreme the claim is that all journalists actively push a particular point of view, i.e., are engaging in propaganda.
> Then one time 20 years ago they make the wrong call vis a vis Iraq weapons of mass destruction, and they've almost completely destroyed their integrity.
If you think about the Iraq war whenever your read a piece by a journalist in the NYT, even if that journalist wasn't even out of their diapers at that time, then you may need to re-adjust your grudges.
Such a derogatory statement detached from reality. It's like saying all health professionals are out there to get your money by keeping you as sick as possible. Or all teachers are out to indoctrinate your kids. Or all firefighters are arsenists.
I have quite a few journalists as friends or acquaintances, and many of them are the most honest people I know, with strong ethics and admireable ideals.
Of course there are bad apples out there. In any profession. But your statement is just ridiculous.