▲ 917 ▼ It's Greek to me (i.imgur.com) submitted 1 year ago by Jordan117@lemmy.world to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world 55 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 year ago* (3 children) Pretty sure all of economics is just using greek/roman letters to make the most basic and irrelevant equations seem smart. permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [+] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago I studied economics and well yeah it's all true permalink fedilink source parent [–] SuperApples@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago I have a graduate diploma in economics and concur it's mostly bullshit. The lecturers essentially agreed. Didn't bother to continue to masters as I don't think there's anything more to learn from the field once you've confirmed that the world economy is based on lies and dice rolls. permalink fedilink source parent [–] teddypolice@feddit.org 4 points 1 year ago Economics is one of the few sciences where if a model prediction is consistently incorrect, we don't discard the model but make a new sub-discipline out of finding excuses for it. permalink fedilink source parent [–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago https://m.xkcd.com/2566/ permalink fedilink source parent [–] Lumbardo@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago I am so glad to see my internal monologue confirmed here on this anonymous forum. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago I studied economics and well yeah it's all true permalink fedilink source parent [–] SuperApples@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago I have a graduate diploma in economics and concur it's mostly bullshit. The lecturers essentially agreed. Didn't bother to continue to masters as I don't think there's anything more to learn from the field once you've confirmed that the world economy is based on lies and dice rolls. permalink fedilink source parent [–] teddypolice@feddit.org 4 points 1 year ago Economics is one of the few sciences where if a model prediction is consistently incorrect, we don't discard the model but make a new sub-discipline out of finding excuses for it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago I studied economics and well yeah it's all true permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SuperApples@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago I have a graduate diploma in economics and concur it's mostly bullshit. The lecturers essentially agreed. Didn't bother to continue to masters as I don't think there's anything more to learn from the field once you've confirmed that the world economy is based on lies and dice rolls. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] teddypolice@feddit.org 4 points 1 year ago Economics is one of the few sciences where if a model prediction is consistently incorrect, we don't discard the model but make a new sub-discipline out of finding excuses for it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago https://m.xkcd.com/2566/ permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Lumbardo@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago I am so glad to see my internal monologue confirmed here on this anonymous forum. permalink fedilink source parent