• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      24 days ago

      The percent of Americans over 18 that voted for Trump in 2016 was 25%. Yes, there’s brain rot, but it’s nowhere near what the rest of the world is picturing in their heads.

      The larger issue here is voter turnout. 45% of our country refused to vote that same year. These people aren’t necessarily stupid, they just don’t give a shit. I’d call that selfishness, personally.

  • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    26
    ·
    24 days ago

    There’s no such thing as a Nobel Prize winning economist. Economists got upset that there wasn’t a Nobel Prize for them, so came up with The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, and then pretend it’s the same thing.

    • Evrala@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      10
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      24 days ago

      If you read some of the prize winning papers some of them are also hilarious, like how economists discovered that slavery is bad fairly recently.

      • jballs@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        24 days ago

        Damn, I should become a *Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel* prize winning economist.