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PaperclipPerfector  1mo ago (text post)   2569 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for March 22, 2024

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I appreciate your advice to look at Khan Academy. I will look for a cost-efficient reading comprehension program to suggest you.

You and @non_radical_centrist: stop this schoolyard nonsense.

It wasn't supposed to be a slight at him. Khan Academy is a great learning resource, and I'm pretty sure he's never learnt any economics beyond articles and blogs(If he has and just chose to reject it, then I should stop wasting my time here). I think he'd learn from just going through the lessons there than any amount of arguing with me or reading more articles and blogs, because there are actual graphs and formulas involved that Khan Academy is better set up to teach.

It wasn't supposed to be a slight at him.

I'm not buying it. Maybe you do honestly believe he fails to grasp basic economics, but "Let me recommend Khan Academy/community college/a textbook" is a polite way of saying "You're ignorant and you don't know what you're talking about," and it's very old and not subtle.

Maybe you do honestly believe he fails to grasp basic economics, but "Let me recommend Khan Academy/community college/a textbook" is a polite way of saying "You're ignorant and you don't know what you're talking about,"

I do believe he fails to grasp basic economics, although I'd guess it's more he doesn't "know" basic economics than "fails to grasp" basic economics. He seems smart enough from his writing ability. In his own words, "It’s an entrenched mythology of capitalism that companies lower prices based on competition". That's some pretty basic economics he's denying. Not knowing basic economics is the same thing as being ignorant and not knowing what he's talking about. The best way for him to learn, in my opinion, is to go through some Khan Academy lessons. I could've recommended he enroll in some Harvard classes instead, but that'd cost him hundreds of dollars and probably not actually be as effective despite being more prestigious.

Do. Not. Be. Patronizing. That is the lesson. That is all.

I really wasn't intending to. I think Khan Academy has great lessons. If I need to refresh myself on economics, since I really only have a 101 knowledge level myself, that's where I go to. I think everyone who wants to argue about economics should go through all the Khan Academy lessons first.

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