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krainboltgreene 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: I am rich and have no idea what to do

That’s actually just categorically wrong and frankly easy to find out. First of all the one that jumps to mind is AOC, but also just in general apparently econ is the third most popular study for congress members, behind politics and law.

kortilla 5 months ago [–]

AOC is not in charge of government spending. Congress members have not meaningfully capped government spending for decades now.

So it’s not “categorically wrong” and it’s petty good evidence that those degrees are useless for actually controlling government spending.

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