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All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell.
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Good, an MBA is just a degree in exploitation. I will fight you over this take like a goddamn racoon over the last piece of food in the dumpster.
Econ is for soothsayers, idiots, cultists and abusers, don't bother to change my mind.
the entrails say... "something, something, irrational exuberance"
Yeah, yeah, that's the problems with you entrailists, always buying into the fantasy of deciphering the economy from some gore. Now a principled economic astrologer, like myself? Well, let's just say MY portfolio has never hit red.
I find the field is only good when combined with humanities as a focal point, e.g. economic history or economic anthropology. It needs grounded otherwise it goes full American Psycho.
There are STEM versions of economics as well which really end up being more behavior science and anthropology crossed with game theory.
Game theory is good
Economics also plays a huge role in conservation as well.
Sadly the focus is put on making the conservation work for the economic interests rather than the economy working for conservation efforts.
My econ professors did not like me that much when I had to take their classes for my conservation degree.
I am glad you say soothsayers, I have been saying for decades, and even in this comment section before getting to this comment, that macro-economics is essentially astrology for MBA bros
Political Economy is the real economics degree.
But what if you're right and I want to join?
I'll see you there
People are often young and naive when they choose what to study. There are some decent people and some assholes among business majors, just like with most other groups of people if you look closely.
Had a friend who was, for whatever reason, in an ethics class where everyone else there was in business. Apparently the professor at one point told them outloud something to the effect of “oh my god, I have never seen a more unethical group of people”(heavily paraphrased, this was a decade ago).
Good and bad exist everywhere, but certain programs do certainly attract greater numbers of good or bad people than others. “How to generate shareholder wealth and make yourself rich” is going to attact a certain type of person more than other types.
There are certainly nice and polite people everywhere, but decency is a matter of ethics in this context, I would say. At least that's how I'm reading it.
Like I'm a nice guy, but I'm not going to pretend it's decent of me to replace data workers with software automation, even if it's just the natural outcome of me putting my education into practice.
I guess the point is that MBA systematically trains you to be unethical in order to do well
Yeah but an MBA is also a post graduate degree. A huge chunk of MBAs have undergrad degrees in something like STEM or humanities.
And with the power of that knowledge they decided to specialize and get a masters of exploitation.
Everyone who makes money in this country exploits someone or something