The broader issue is that smart political theologists have always conceded the same point: there is always a more or
less small number of individuals who are able to live pretty well on Earth without recourse to religion.
Not exact matches
In his seminal book On Liberty, the philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote: «Persons
of genius are... more
individual than any other people -
less capable, consequently,
of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any
of the
small number of moulds which society provides in order to save its members the trouble
of forming their own character.»
While the
numbers are not available, I expect that the
number of lawyers serving
individuals and
small businesses likely grew even
less.
Worse, the probability
of an
individual taking action is inversely proportional to the
number of «bystanders», so a call to the over 1,000,000 lawyers in the US to participate in an ethics hearing is, paradoxically, much
less likely than a call to a
smaller, more focused group.
Outside
of a certain
number - crunching minority, benchmarking a smartphone is an unnecessary and anachronistic experience, since both the
individual apps (and games) and the platforms on which they run are
less sensitive to the minutiae
of small hardware changes.