So, I wrote this as a response to
>>>/leftypol/2230222, but I thought, I might as well post is as a general criticism to the whole chan… And so, I guess I'll post it here.
I'm a leftist. I came as a refugee from 4chan. I've been browsing this board, looking for replacement of my favorite boards, and noticed that there are no boards for math, science (hard or social sciences), engineering, history or economics/finance. Let me give you an example of why I think it would be a good idea to have those. It's a rather extreme example, but bear with me.
See the pic? Do you know why the legacy of Chavez failed? It's because they wasted a ton of money on useless crap. What you will hear from many of those venezuelan emigrants (esp. from the middle class ones) is that the Chavez government would give them cash for the most stupid shit, like tourism. They would be given hundreds or even thousands of dollars to travel to other countries. That's basically throwing money away and fucking stupid for a 3rd world country that depends on sale of raw materials. I'd guess those were part of the "social programs" the defenders talk about so much…
His government also gave a ton of "help" in the form of money and resources to other government and people from other countries. Do you think those countries helped them back when things went downhill for Venezuela?
If you don't know some basic math, history, have a sense of basic personal finances and at least some knowledge of technical matters, then how are you supposed to put things in perspective? Let's say you are the president (aka manager) of a country. You have to manage a TON of resources and want to change how things work (a la Chavez or Trump). You start moving money from some areas of your govt. to other areas, and then people complain that you cut a ton of jobs, killed programs that you thought were useless but are actually fundamental to have a basic modern society (like, say, weather forecasting) or whatever. And, since you already sent that money elsewhere, you have no money left, so you have to ask someone to lend money to your government, which means you will have to pay MORE money in the future. See where I am going? This shit repeats even at a domestic level.
Being stupid with money, ignorant of how our current society works, not knowing how hard and context-sensitive technical matters are, and not being able to have some sense of the history of thing
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