Message from @Orwell

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2018-12-15 00:47:52 UTC  

You don't have to follow the word for word of the idea, but you will ultimately have an idea closer to your own philosophy

2018-12-15 00:47:59 UTC  

i suppose

2018-12-15 00:48:20 UTC  

maybe i just dont have as much real life experience yet

2018-12-15 00:48:29 UTC  

how can i understand economics without paying my taxes

2018-12-15 00:48:37 UTC  

im just a college student after all

2018-12-15 00:49:15 UTC  

Paying your taxes is not really a good way to understand economics, but it's surely a start lol

2018-12-15 00:49:33 UTC  

I would just call me an ecofascist, @CrowGoCaw

2018-12-15 00:49:37 UTC  

its a good indicator of how policies in economics truly affect you

2018-12-15 00:50:00 UTC  

something some radicalized sjws might not understand

2018-12-15 00:50:34 UTC  

Somewhat, but then every salary is just as affected by economics

2018-12-15 00:51:46 UTC  

So job experience is even stronger than doing taxes because you can get different perspectives while talking to your superiors

2018-12-15 00:52:18 UTC  

Economics is a massive spook

2018-12-15 00:52:47 UTC  

much like the social sciences, its built on a bunch of fluff that is really easy to understand

2018-12-15 00:53:10 UTC  

its pretty intimidating to think about to be honest

2018-12-15 00:53:21 UTC  

Economics as in an area of study is really foggy and fake

2018-12-15 00:53:22 UTC  

they have whole professors dedicated to economic theory

2018-12-15 00:53:27 UTC  

so it might not be as simple as it seems

2018-12-15 00:54:41 UTC  

"professional" economists are what made me an autarkist, austrians love to say things like "recessions are natural"

2018-12-15 00:55:13 UTC  

ive noticed a lot of radicalized leftists seem to lack some basic knowledge of economics

2018-12-15 00:55:21 UTC  

not all leftists are like that

2018-12-15 00:55:25 UTC  

but the radicalized ones

2018-12-15 00:55:38 UTC  

Did someone say communist

2018-12-15 00:55:38 UTC  

the type that say things like "the world would be better without money"

2018-12-15 00:55:50 UTC  

I remember how my professors tried to teach me about how prohibiting drugs was a bad thing to combat the drugs business, because making it unregulated and harder to obtain made it equally more profitable

2018-12-15 00:55:52 UTC  

without actually pondering why money exists in the first place

2018-12-15 00:56:00 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/507035890640486411/523302173661069314/1488695723985.png

2018-12-15 00:56:11 UTC  

@Orwell what you sound like rn

2018-12-15 00:56:14 UTC  

no offense

2018-12-15 00:56:19 UTC  

idk what to tell you

2018-12-15 00:56:23 UTC  

money is a medium of trade

2018-12-15 00:56:28 UTC  

you use money to get what you lack

2018-12-15 00:56:31 UTC  

Ancaps only need supply and demand and some monetarist literature.

2018-12-15 00:56:34 UTC  

They are brainlets.

2018-12-15 00:56:54 UTC  

Mercantilism for hundreds of years just goes to show money is only worth something if people care about it

2018-12-15 00:57:17 UTC  

money only has value if everyone agrees it has value

2018-12-15 00:57:22 UTC  

otherwise well go back to the old days

2018-12-15 00:57:31 UTC  

of trading rice for socks or something

2018-12-15 00:57:43 UTC  

Rice for socks is an awesome trading system

2018-12-15 00:57:55 UTC  

yeah but you cant trade if you dont have rice or socks

2018-12-15 00:57:59 UTC  

thats why money is important

2018-12-15 00:58:03 UTC  

because it can be used by anyone