• Lem Jukes@sopuli.xyz
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    22 days ago

    Good, an MBA is just a degree in exploitation. I will fight you over this take like a goddamn racoon over the last piece of food in the dumpster.

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      22 days ago

      Econ is for soothsayers, idiots, cultists and abusers, don’t bother to change my mind.

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          22 days ago

          I find the field is only good when combined with humanities as a focal point, e.g. economic history or economic anthropology. It needs grounded otherwise it goes full American Psycho.

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            21 days ago

            There are STEM versions of economics as well which really end up being more behavior science and anthropology crossed with game theory.

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            20 days ago

            Economics also plays a huge role in conservation as well.

            Sadly the focus is put on making the conservation work for the economic interests rather than the economy working for conservation efforts.

            My econ professors did not like me that much when I had to take their classes for my conservation degree.

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          21 days ago

          Yeah, yeah, that’s the problems with you entrailists, always buying into the fantasy of deciphering the economy from some gore. Now a principled economic astrologer, like myself? Well, let’s just say MY portfolio has never hit red.

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        21 days ago

        I am glad you say soothsayers, I have been saying for decades, and even in this comment section before getting to this comment, that macro-economics is essentially astrology for MBA bros

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      22 days ago

      Yeah but an MBA is also a post graduate degree. A huge chunk of MBAs have undergrad degrees in something like STEM or humanities.

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        22 days ago

        And with the power of that knowledge they decided to specialize and get a masters of exploitation.