• came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    i did this interdisciplinary thing for my B.S. between that and AP shit in high school and some macro i took during my initial false start at college, i took a solid amount of econ classes, including upper division stuff.

    the only value i got as a human trying to live and work in this world, besides understanding what the machine wants us to believe, is the coursework i did on managerial principles/accounting and some non-profit managerial economics, which the instructor made sure to instill in us that non-profits (outside of very specific cases) could not be managed like for profit organizations, that it was a very different skillset and required a deeper understanding of concepts that do not conform to the economic model (public goods, altruism, etc). it was super interesting and absolutely gave me a leg up in understanding how non profits work/fail/exploit or occasionally reform out of dysfunction and succeed. and i can push back hard when douchebags try to cowboy some cash strapped org by saying "this needs to be run like a business", because no. this is america, jack, if it could be a business, it would be a business.