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just because something is BS, doesn't mean it's easy. no was I can get a chiropractic license, but that doesn't mean it isn't BS.
look at all the nuances and complexities in astrology, it's still made up thing that brings comfort to some, but it isn't "easy".
however the biggest objection to economics, is that it's a self fulfilling profecy for the rich, they invest in the economical ideas they like, make them popular and into a "science" even with fake Nobel prizes. then those theories get applied because it's "science" now. only to benefit those who financed those institutions. basically Lobbying with extra steps.
Did you seriously compare a science that uses quantitative and qualitative methodology to astrology?
You're out of your mind.
BSc stands for Bachelor of Science. Something you would know if you knew what you were talking about.
using "sciency" terms doesn't make you a science. look at chiropractors, or Scientology.
What the fuck do you mean.
You don't even know what economics as a science is, yet you're comparing it to Scientology, you're just a troll at this point.
did I say something wrong?
even if there was a crumb of truth in that whole field. it's far too diluted by bullshit from rich people trying to pass their idiotic ideas on how society should run as fact. they are basically giant lobbying think-tanks.
that's like trusting climate science sponsored by Shell
That's not what learning economics is like. Unless you live in a dictatorship I guess.
Economics gives you knowledge and tools, it does not prescribe political or lobby-run ideologies.
It explains them, for the political stances at the very least, such that an economist is equipped with the tools to understand those stances and what an economic agent would choose as part of their decision process following those schools of thought.
But it does not force anything on anyone.
I studied in Europe though, maybe that's too foreign a thought for you.
Edit: Just so you don't confuse my description of what is taught for the entirety of what is taught. Political science was only broached upon in the tiniest of ways. It also was part of the game theory courses mostly (where decision making and prediction based on logic and outcomes is the entire point).
Europe is a dictatorship of the owning class, so, according to your logic, Albert is right.
I have a big, mostly tongue-in-cheek, interest in old spiritualism - Crowley, Rider-Waite, Golden Dawn, alchemy, Eteilla... - i don't think any of it is "real" but boy howdy can they write screeds on the relationship of quartz to the smell of petrichor, or exactly why going "shh" is a sacred act of the Egyptian diety Hoor-pa-Kraat
Alright. But you're equating complexity to veracity. That's just incredibly untrue.
Economics might seem like bollocks if you have a surface-level understanding of it. But the study itself uses the scientific method all the way through.
It doesn't start from assumptions, and doesn't treat its hypotheses as tenets.
It's all just experimental through quantitative/qualitative data, as well as empirical.
no I'm equating complexity of apparatus to individual effort of understanding the complexity.
Understanding a complex system has no bearing on the application of the complex system.
Understanding how the Linux kernel works would be no help in beet farming, that doesn't mean either endeavor is entirely worthless in context.