Comment on Lefty tax

• LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I love how your defense of over generalizing one group instantly devolved into over generalizing a different group.

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  • Klear@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah. People on Lemmy always do that

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    • MrChewy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Fuckin’ Lemmers…

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  • MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fair point, but Americans score lower than several comparable countries, despite a higher GDP which one would hope would correlate to education. There are several reasons for this, but as an American, I’m just mentioning that it’s not a generational thing as much as a countrywide thing. nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=1

    I think it’s nice to realize that people aren’t hardwired to understand math. There’s been no evolutionary selection for an understanding of the distributive property or knowledge of a dot product. Math can be difficult and we need to devote more resources to teaching it. Gen Alpha isn’t inherently less intelligent. Math is just hard and this person is probably seeing American Gen Alphas that have grown up in a society that does not value or invest in education the way it should. I don’t think that’s over generalizing as much as it’s drawing conclusions from available data.

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    • Sonicdemon86@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Gdp is stupid metric. If I give you 100 usd the gdp is now 100 usd but if you give it back now thr gdp is 200 usd even though no services were exchanged. It is what bubbles are made of.

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If that group is Americans, it’s pretty on brand for Lemmy.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  you say that, but i always see europeans whine so much whenever imperial units are used anywhere because they can’t figure out how to multiply by .3048

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  • sexhaver87@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The other side to this line of logic is that Americans can’t divide by 10

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      that’s not how you convert from metric to imperial though. again the europeans failing at mathematics

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      • Akasazh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You got it wrong there.

        (Just because you asked me to, I didn’t do the math)

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      • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Lol

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