The way this is not even a joke, coming from someone who tried to study economics for a semester but gave up because it felt like indoctrination even more than the school system is, lmfao.

https://social.edist.ro/@CosmickTrigger/114818986002998510

Mainstream economics as it’s taught at universities is a joke. It’s a religion that twists reality to fit its theorems instead of adapting to what is out there. It even had its own prophets as found in John Locke or Adam Smith, eternal suffering be upon them. Their scripture is obsessed with trying to be physics so badly and it’s pathetic. Human interactions don’t follow neat laws. If your theory needs a model that is never found anywhere and never under any circumstances, then what the fuck are you modeling it for?!

What made me the angriest I could be at ever putting myself through that hellish semester was not even the indoctrination and twisted reality. It’s the lies with which they coat the “facts” as benefitting everyone. Like at least be upfront about who is benefitting from doing this or that. An economic exchange doesn’t automatically result in a win-win because we’re rational. Even if we’re rational, economics has no concept of power (imbalance). If a billionaire offers a mining slave 5 options for trading and the slave picks the least evil out of these, while rational, they didn’t win. These two weren’t equal in power, whether social or material.

This bullshit makes me furious whenever someone brings it up and today is the day for it to resurface, it seems. ❤️