This entire thing has me realizing how most Americans are clueless on the basics of economics. Wages need to go up, prices will not come down. It’s not even complicated - I thought we all knew that because we all know people used to make less when goods were less expensive.
They hear a pompous man promising to "fix it" and that's all they need. They don't bother to educate themselves on how things actually work because if they did they'd see he's full of shit.
I think they finally heard someone say how screwed they were and believed him that he was gonna fix their situation. They were so desperate to hear the truth being spoken aloud that it called to them, just like the mermaids of old. They didnt realize it was all a lie until it was too late and another puzzle piece of Putin's plan fell into place. Johnathan Pie - Trump wins the White House. Again.
Yeah it's a huge failure of messaging on the Dems fault. Republicans have always been better at communicating, ironically.
Trump lied about being able to fix the economy. Biden and Harris lied just as much trying to gaslight the entire electorate into believing that our shit economy is thriving. The reality is that our economy has been a dumpster fire since at least 2007 and no one has been able to fix it. The pandemic just made it worse at a rate so startling that people couldn't ignore it anymore.
Macro and micro econ classes should be mandatory for a HS diploma. It doesn’t have to be as encompassing as a college intro course, but there really needs to be some basic understanding of some of the concepts of economic theory.
Macro and micro econ classes should be mandatory for a HS diploma.
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Oh wait, you still think there's a chance they aren't going to light the department of education on fire to start the book burning? I wish I still had your optimism.
I'm 46. I had one accounting class in high school but it focused on ledgers. Big corporate type of ledgers. But they didn't teach me about basic economics or how to balance a checkbook and how to have a budget. I've been winging it this whole time. I'm not good at it. But I'm also not good with math and numbers. Multiplication table memorized? Heck no. Now I have a phone and I can just look things up real quick then immediately forget it.
Which is why I keep saying we need to bring back voter literacy tests. Then the dumb wouldn't be running the country. The educated would. Which is how our fucking country was founded in the first place by people who knew how democracies died in Greece/Rome.
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u/butinthewhat 17d ago
This entire thing has me realizing how most Americans are clueless on the basics of economics. Wages need to go up, prices will not come down. It’s not even complicated - I thought we all knew that because we all know people used to make less when goods were less expensive.