• @[email protected]
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    474 days ago

    Thing is, basic economics is a high school subject, except:

    “Sir, when am I going to have to know how tariffs work in the real world?”

      • @[email protected]
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        244 days ago

        I don’t think mine even had it as an elective. We were too busy spending 2 years of history classes learning how nice the Pilgrims were to the natives. And this was in Massachusetts, which I believe ranks #1 in education in the US.

        • Billiam
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          164 days ago

          #1 in education.

          And also the only state in the country where every precinct voted for Harris.

          Surely that must be a coincidence, right?

    • @2pt_perversion
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      94 days ago

      Basic economics was not a required class in my high school. Macro and Micro Economics were both electives.

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        34 days ago

        tariffs, trade wars, and their effects surely were covered, or at least touched on, in a history class or two.

    • @Trual
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      64 days ago

      Hmm maybe my highschool was far below average then

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        I was the idiot who though skipping school to partake in smoking weed was the better outcome of studying at school, although I do partially blame being bullied at school for me avoiding it.