That's fair, and someone told be there's a distinction between politics and policy, but when politicians pander to the crowd, it's really hard to get an idea of what their actual policy will be.
Re:The EdTech Revolution Has Failed
by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @12:25PM
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I think it's worse. Regardless of the amount of education, they would have to care about policy enough to read and act on candidates' policies.
Re:The EdTech Revolution Has Failed
by medvezhenok on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @04:38PM
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This is reductive. Even PhD economists are crap at predicting effects of certain policies (see the Federal Reserve - it has thousands of them!). The economy is very complex to model (and has reflexivity), and generally you will find credentialed experts on both sides of anything short of a trivial debate.
Tariffs have pros/cons, as does any other policy proposed by the two candidates. And the most tricky thing when computing the effects of these policies is: "what is the quantity we're trying to optimize for?" - where the "welfare of the people" is not really a measurable thing.
They aren't economic idiots, they just know most American voters mistrust any economic concept more complex than "taxes bad. China bad. jobs good."