the main reason i waste time on discord is because there's so much misinformation on how the world works out there and it is systematically perpetuated through both the media and actual educational institutions. In debate format, like on discord, the narrative *is* shaped by people with the most persuasive arguments, and i believe most *trendsetters* in these forums are the people who *have* done the study in their fields, because they're the most likely people to have the persuasive arguments since they're drawn from expertise. But, given in the economic domain, *almost anyone officially trained is armed with mostly false theories and understandings of how the world works*, the information being spread is going to be *completely dodgy*, and in the absence of anyone challenging these demonstrably false perspectives, harmful misinformation will be spread. So i kind of feel an urgency to push back against this
