Another classic r*ddit thread full of the most libbed up shit imaginable. Great for pulling some very dunkable comments, not great for your sanity or blood pressure.
This comment really struck me (although there are many more stunning ones) because Western liberal economics is bogus and the legal profession is riddled with arrogant doofuses.
https://old.reddit.com/r/ask/comments/10akt0g/in_your_honest_opinion_is_reddit_a_progressive/
I think I gotta hand it to them on the law front. The legal profession is riddled with arrogant doofuses and it's all made up anyways, but it does stick to it's own rules. And reddit is notorious for people posting absolutely garbage law takes with full conviction on the basis of "it's just common sense!" or "the other option would be an injustice!" as if that's not the first two concepts you have to throw out to understand law.
You're right that bad legal advice abounds on reddit, but in the US there are FIFTY different sets of rules, plus the federal rules, and each can be wildly different from each other. So just saying "I'm a lawyer" doesn't mean shit because a legal take could correct in one state and incorrect in another.
It's still the same legal system though. It's not like it's an especially egregious sin to apply CO law to NY by mistake, but that hardly happens because anybody who has a clue enough to cite one states law correctly has enough of a clue to not think laws apply universally
It's usually along the lines of "I read this single line of law with no context or knowledge of the system it's embedded in, from this we can clearly see..." and just..that's always wrong, but really common. It's the sort of redditism where someone says "it's not illegal to block a parking spot" and then somebody pulls up the jaywalking law and says it's illegal to be in front of a car at all times so you have been disproven my good sir. It's just make believe about how the law system works (always according to what I think is correct).
You're not wrong, you're just giving the guy way more credit than I'm giving him purely on my vibes-based impression.
Just saying you gotta hand it to them on that one. Could just be a broken clock moment
I suppose so - it's just that I've met this dude (not literally, but "lawyer-to-fintech" bros) and they have some of the most insidious brainworms out there, so I instinctively :doubt:
Oh, make no mistake, I'm fully on board that even most people that practice law have inside brainworms. It's just that "being better educated about law" than the average redditor is a very low bar to clear and unlike the economy, that actually does have set rules instead of just vibes. At least until you get into constituational law
Is reddit a progressive echo chamber? Asked by a classical liberal
No.
Reddit is Liberal
And I mean that in the worst possible way
idk this seems like they could as easily be complaining about chuds as a lib. and communists don't take econ 101 we either read capital or have a phd in economics
I think what set me off was the "I'm an expert in financial analytics at a major consultancy" and those dipshits literally have no idea how the system works - fucking Greenspan, the supposed messiah of neoliberal economics admitted after 2008 that all their models were wrong.
I can live with bad models, but defending them as god given truth before and overstretching their utility is just evil.
I took plenty of Econ courses and know plenty who did take some for economy of states and business administration, too. It is good to know your enemy and be able to critique them, however you personally really don't have to do it cause most critiques are already known and can be understood from the outside.
In that regard Richard Wolf's talk about that hold very true.
Financial Analytics at a Major Consultancy
"I do spreadsheet work for McKinsey that gets promptly ignored by the people who made me do it, unless they want someone to blame"
"Haha, everyone around me is capable of recognizing that I know less than nothing, what fools!"
So that person is a former lawyer, with that it likely means a 2 year university program and bar exam (possible a third year) in the US.
Compare that to 7(sic!) years in Germany. In addition you will have to do some guided practice afterwards for certain places.
Then former, yeah... that might tell us a lot. Also if you are now an "expert in financial analysis" it shows that you actually did not study hard STEM or sociology for years, but did just transition from the job. This means that person is as qualified as a redditor and less qualified than even liberal students in other countries.
Even without any Marxist analysis.
