“In praise of billionaires”… but not this one

Patrick Soon-Shiong. A biotech billionaire who bough the LA Times in 2018 and handed it over to Nika, his 28 year old daughter who has turned it into a platform for her favourite woke causes, including “defund the polices down to the last dollar”. We know from actual facts and actual experience that where the police have been defunded, including in LA, crime has spiked, up to 200%. But ideology is immune to facts. 

Nika has forced the Times to endorse a radical socialist for the WeHo County Board. And as someone who has lived in an actual socialist country (China in the seventies) I have no time for socialism writ large. In my view, Patrick is doing harm to California by negligently allowing his crazy daughter to push her own extreme views through the West Coast’s “paper of record”. An early Guardian report.

Stick to bio-tech Patrick.