This is the first time in a long time I've considered commenting on TC (for the gawdawful headline typo) - and so just now discovered comments were not displaying. It then occurred to me it might have to do with my use of facebookblocker.
Yep. Turning off FBBlocker displayed the comments - and would have permitted me to comment. Sorry. Not interested in unifying all my visibility on the web. Am I the only one that is uncomfortable with this inescapability of to participate in web discussions?
> the falsehood that high net worth requirements somehow protect consumers
Perhaps they serve to protect that vulnerable segment of our population, the mega-corporation?
Once yours reaches sufficient size/influence [never to be explicitly specified] it may be able to claim such rights for itself before the U.S. Supreme Court, the supremely sympathetic arbitrator of such matters in this country. [/sarcasm]
I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that Isaacson is "seeking more attention."
I think the attention-people (media) are begging for his early words and competing intensely for his time/words. The publisher may also have some stipulation in Isaacson's contract about how available he is to make himself to interviews with media outlets. Not saying I have evidence that's the way it's going down - just that such factors are at least as arguable as a hypothesis that Isaacson is an attention-monger.
I prefer: "In God we trust. The rest show data."