Depends on if you're referring to experience defrauding the American public, or protecting the American public. That can have different answers depending on what which side of the transaction you sit.
Running a business is a rude awakening for anyone who hasn't done it. Like a ballet critic who has never taken a ballet class. Or a commander who has never been shot at. Or a sailor who has never been at sea.
Mayors Katie Wilson and Mandami have never run a business, or worked for a business, and it shows.
How can one regulate a business without ever being in the trenches?
> Like a ballet critic who has never taken a ballet class.
In this case though it would be more like an inspector checking that the changes made to modify a building to house a ballet studio follow code has not taken a ballet class.
So is the solution to only nominate corporate bagmen who have a perverse incentive?
No. Nominate a pissed off insider who knows how things work from personal experience and an axe to grind!
And therefore shouldn't be allowed to have opinions on crime and antitrust? Is that your argument?
Everybody has opinions. That doesn't mean those opinions are based on reality.
duh? why would you want someone with no experience making decisions?
She has experience in the relevant areas.
It is quite common for experience in X itself to be quite different from the experience that is useful in dealing with X in some different context.
Most oncologists have no experience with actually having cancer themselves.
A majority of aircraft mechanics are not pilots.
Only a small percentage of referees in most major professional sports leagues have every played that sport professionally themselves.
Most patent lawyers are not inventors.
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Depends on if you're referring to experience defrauding the American public, or protecting the American public. That can have different answers depending on what which side of the transaction you sit.
What does experience mean? Does only private-sector experience "count?" Should we remove Alito from the bench on those grounds?
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None of those things you list that she has never done help in any meaningful way with understanding antitrust law.
Running a business is a rude awakening for anyone who hasn't done it. Like a ballet critic who has never taken a ballet class. Or a commander who has never been shot at. Or a sailor who has never been at sea.
Mayors Katie Wilson and Mandami have never run a business, or worked for a business, and it shows.
How can one regulate a business without ever being in the trenches?
> Like a ballet critic who has never taken a ballet class.
In this case though it would be more like an inspector checking that the changes made to modify a building to house a ballet studio follow code has not taken a ballet class.
> Mandami have never run a business, or worked for a business, and it shows.
In record-high approval ratings, multiple reforms supported by small businesses, and fast progress on many huge initiatives?
So what.
Theory and practice are different things.
Lina Khan has never eaten breakfast cereal out of a boot, nor even a shoe.