There are a few thousand other books you should read - going back to Plato. You should also understand linear algebra and multivariate calculus. You should understand the equations in economics - even for the economics you disapprove of. This means working through people like Von Mises and Fridman that are enemies of socialism. If you want a meaningful framework through which economics should be approached mathematically you should read Brian Arthur as he was the first economist (to my knowledge) to apply dif frac calc and path dependencies into models.

So if by educated you mean you've read a few thousand books dating back to Athens and have a highly developed understanding of mathematics, history and economics then cool. If you mean you read some "Marxist" books and you've somehow a great command of human knowledge then go crawl under a fucking rock please.

Breadtube thread.

All hail /u/Yeuph, master of a thousand other books you should read

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    It reminds me of this equally pretentious philosophy student who tried to le debate my simpleton labour theory of value. They never made a coherent argument, only pointing out what kind of philosophical arguments I made with "I can disagree with that". Everything was met with a PHI101 definition what they were looking at. When I asked what their alternative to it was, they said "I value biodiversity". They refused to translate that into some kind of actionable framework beyond "things that reduce biodiversity are bad".

    The most gifted child I've seen on reddit. Real square-block-smashed-through-round-hole-because-squares-are-gooder energy.