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You’re smarter than I am. I took the promotions, and ended up miserable.

I learned the hard way that higher leveld don’t mean more decision-making power. It means more of your time is spent in endless meetings trying to convince people to agree to the obviously right decision. It’s a never ending exercise in frustrating stupidity.

I don’t think these two academics are suffering from disinterest or a lack of subject expertise.

Perhaps not, but successful academics will also understand and tailor their messaging to their audience, dumbing it down if necessary.

I think that’s a very purposeful result of US politics

Complete agreement. So is the international hegemony of the dollar, and why, a decade ago, the US government had an apoplectic fit when OPEC made noises about starting to accept payments in, or fixing prices to, something other than the dollar. I don’t think the general public understood just how important it is that so many of the global currencies are tied to the value of the dollar, and, like English, it’s the financial lingua franca.

I disagree that it’s been overall bad for the US, although I think it’s been extremely unhealthy for the world at large.

Any subject can be qualified, and you’re right that more things probably should.

There’s capitalism; then, for me, there’s laissez-faire capitalism and regulated capitalism as the two main branches. Somewhere within laissez-faire economics lies libertarianism and anarchy, which are political structures, but the implementation of which would presumed literally no central control - people trading precious metals, goods and services directly. On the other branch you have regulated markets that eventually include limited socialism - usually restricted to public infrastructure and military, and where you start to blend in aspects of communism. And while I’m certain there are technical terms for all of the, I care a little less about economics than I do sports, which is to say not at all.

I have my own opinions about what I think is wrong with Capitalism in the US, and what changes I think could fix them, but this is decidedly not my area of expertise and I’m very much a believer of differentiating between opinions and knowledge.

What you’re seeing, I think, is a limitation in American education combined with DILIGAF - disinterest in becoming enough of a subject expert to use precise terminology. However, I think it’s misplaced to get upset about it; I’m certain medical doctors, aerospace engineers, computer engineers, plumbers, electricians, auto mechanics, classical musicians, voting theory scientists - they all probably mentally tear their hair out a little when talking to laypeople because we’re all so “imprecise” in our terminology. I think it’s just a consequence of living in a world so complex and varied, it’s not possible for one person to be an expert and use precise terminology when talking about every subject - and this includes economics.

Looks delicious, doesn’t it?

“Improved mental state”?

“Improved self-confidence”?

I think the person who made this list did not grow up as a girl. This coming hard on the heels of man/bear.