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100% agree. Flowery prose has its place, but an article calling on a return to traditionalism and denouncing the benefits of neoliberalism isn't it. Doubly on-the-nose is that the article would be inaccessible to many due to being steeped in elitism.

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>the article would be inaccessible to many due to being steeped in elitism.

Inaccessible to who exactly?

At least 43% of the population:

https://nces.ed.gov/NAAL/kf_demographics.asp

You read my mind.

I'd have thought that's exactly where it is placed; is not the neoliberal the efficient, the calculated, the stopwatch on the factory floor? Every word counts, the neoliberal grumbles, because time is money! The plight of the lower classes cares little for what some other gatekeeper deems 'inaccessible', after all, it is the low expectations and streamlined class sorting that determines such a thing either way. If it's valuable, it will be explained by others simply.

I challenge your assumption. Simple content does not equate to cheap production.

It does, however, equate to easier understanding by people who haven't been encouraged to invest their formative years in a thesaurus.

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