• Wahots@pawb.social
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    17 hours ago

    In people’s defense, unless you are taking uni economics classes, you probably aren’t getting taught macro/micro + general economics, though it is interesting as hell imo.

    Technically, our representatives should, in theory, be learning this stuff and protecting the average person so that civilians can focus on foresty/rocket science/ R&D/public health/business/infrastructure/etc.

    That’s why representatives technically are supposed to exist. Nobody has time to learn the one and outs of everything needed to run an entire country smoothly. Especially complicated stuff, like public health, economics and trade, sewage systems, transit systems, and centralized grid planning. That shit is complicated AF.

    • village604@adultswim.fan
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      4 hours ago

      I learned all of that stuff the person you replied to listed in a small rural Texas high school. Most people just don’t care enough to retain the information.