Re:Ask HN: What's the most valuable thing you can learn in a...
by solipsism on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @11:07AM
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If understanding compound interest and (more generally) feedback loops is important, then so is critical thinking. For example:
> many of the folks that have gone through similar transformations don't come from "easy" backgrounds.
Some simple critical thinking skills and basic logic (often learned in a philosophy course, but not always) would help one understand that this shows only that the statement <it's impossible for any poor person to become wealthy> is false. It certainly says nothing about the idea that <all poor people could become wealthy>.
> many of the folks that have gone through similar transformations don't come from "easy" backgrounds.
Some simple critical thinking skills and basic logic (often learned in a philosophy course, but not always) would help one understand that this shows only that the statement <it's impossible for any poor person to become wealthy> is false. It certainly says nothing about the idea that <all poor people could become wealthy>.