Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell.

lemjukes@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Econ is for soothsayers, idiots, cultists and abusers, don’t bother to change my mind.

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  • Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I am glad you say soothsayers, I have been saying for decades, and even in this comment section before getting to this comment, that macro-economics is essentially astrology for MBA bros

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  • lemjukes@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    the entrails say… “something, something, irrational exuberance”

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    • Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, yeah, that’s the problems with you entrailists, always buying into the fantasy of deciphering the economy from some gore. Now a principled economic astrologer, like myself? Well, let’s just say MY portfolio has never hit red.

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I find the field is only good when combined with humanities as a focal point, e.g. economic history or economic anthropology. It needs grounded.

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      • socsa@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        There are STEM versions of economics as well which really end up being more behavior science and anthropology crossed with game theory.

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• Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  People are often young and naive when they choose what to study. There are some decent people and some assholes among business majors, just like with most other groups of people if you look closely.

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  • Soup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Had a friend who was, for whatever reason, in an ethics class where everyone else there was in business. Apparently the professor at one point told them outloud something to the effect of “oh my god, I have never seen a more unethical group of people”(heavily paraphrased, this was a decade ago).

    Good and bad exist everywhere, but certain programs do certainly attract greater numbers of good or bad people than others. “How to generate shareholder wealth and make yourself rich” is going to attact a certain type of person more than other types.

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  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There are certainly nice and polite people everywhere, but decency is a matter of ethics in this context, I would say. At least that’s how I’m reading it.

    Like I’m a nice guy, but I’m not going to pretend it’s decent of me to replace data workers with software automation, even if it’s just the natural outcome of me putting my education into practice.

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• jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  But what if you’re right and I want to join?

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• exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah but an MBA is also a post graduate degree. A huge chunk of MBAs have undergrad degrees in something like STEM or humanities.

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  • lemjukes@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And with the power of that knowledge they decided to specialize and get a masters of exploitation.

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    • ronigami@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Everyone who makes money in this country exploits someone or something

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