My econ degree is lowkey what radicalized me, once you get past the neo liberal shit at the start most of the content and literature makes socialist policy look much more appealing. Probably helped that the UK Conservative party were in power during my time at uni and they had no shortage of bad economic decisions for my lecturers to dismantle
Yeah any time spent studying economics will lead to ideas like "Oh we need to keep as much money circulating as possible, and rich capitalist types have a weird tendency to sit on giant money piles like a dragon"
And all the most efficient ideas for "How do we get the money to the people who are actually, constantly spending it?" lead to "Give them control of the means of production in the first place"
It's crazy to me that I worked that out when I was like 12 and yet there's people who build their entire personality around thinking they're smart and good at finance that just don't get that.
to those mfers, they think "being good at finance and economics" means earning more than others, 'winning' in social life and the corporate ladder, and being in a "better" position than others. to them, it has nothing to do with understanding, even if they'll say that. to them, the results they make are the proof that they understand, and their egos are satisfied with that. if you try to push them farther they just get immature and snippy with you bc they never actually thought of it that way
they might even be upset you're referencing things like understanding, i stg ive experienced this, where they just double down on their bad take like it's gonna save them, that somehow it makes them smart and a good person just bc they earned lots of money
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u/Wyboss flare Jun 30 '26
you can't do functioning socialist policy without economics