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Retired Boomer, Electrical Engineering dropout. Fixed computers for IBM anyway. 🖖 Science Fiction aficionado 🚀 Economics hobbyist specializing in Depreciation due to Planned Obsolescence. 11/16/24 day 0

created November 16, 2024

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I find it strange that LOTS of people do not connect Technology & Economics! Economists with PhDs cannot figure out Planned Obsolescence in automobiles half-a-century after the Moon Landing??? Ridiculous! 😜

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What about the "House of Quark" episode where Quark was teaching accounting to Klingons? Why haven't Unions advocated all union members knowing accounting? Economic Warfare means proper training for the warriors. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t3df... What did Marx say about Depreciation? Smith?

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What about the "House of Quark" episode where Quark was teaching accounting to Klingons? Why haven't Unions advocated all union members knowing accounting? Economic Warfare means proper training for the warriors. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t3df... What did Marx say about Depreciation? Smith?

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What about the "House of Quark" episode where Quark was teaching accounting to Klingons? Why haven't Unions advocated all union members knowing accounting? Economic Warfare means proper training for the warriors. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t3df... What did Marx say about Depreciation? Smith?

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What about the "House of Quark" episode where Quark was teaching accounting to Klingons? Why haven't Unions advocated all union members knowing accounting? Economic Warfare means proper training for the warriors. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t3df...

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What about the "House of Quark" episode where Quark was teaching accounting to Klingons? Why haven't Unions advocated all union members knowing accounting? Economic Warfare means proper training for the warriors. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t3df...

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What about the "House of Quark" episode where Quark was teaching accounting to Klingons? Why haven't Unions advocated all union members knowing accounting? Economic Warfare means proper training for the warriors. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t3df...

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What about the "House of Quark" episode where Quark was teaching accounting to Klingons? Why haven't Unions advocated all union members knowing accounting? Economic Warfare means proper training for the warriors. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t3df...

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Unschooling, Deschooling m.youtube.com/watch?v=a06q... AI schooling Education Failing! This makes sense to me because I started reading Science Fiction in 4th grade and ignoring teachers. The System is more about Psychological Conditioning than EduCaTion! See Pink Floyd! We Don't Need No Education!

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What do economists understand about economics? Does technology Depreciate? When was the latest that "experts" should have figured out Planned Obsolescence in cars? Look at WWII fighter planes. This was 30 years before Apollo 11. 1939 Technology: P-38 Lightning m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb4U...

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Does anyone really believe that Trump can figure out the consequences of his actions when other people may change their behavior as a result? Can Trump play chess worth a damn? He is just an egomaniac with delusions of grandeur who cannot accept that other players are smarter. He is wrecking usA!

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Does anyone really believe that Trump can figure out the consequences of his actions when other people may change their behavior as a result? Can Trump play chess worth a damn? He is just an egomaniac with delusions of grandeur who cannot accept that other players are smarter. He is wrecking usA!

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Does anyone really believe that Trump can figure out the consequences of his actions when other people may change their behavior as a result? Can Trump play chess worth a damn? He is just an egomaniac with delusions of grandeur who cannot accept that other players are smarter. He is wrecking usA!

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What about the "House of Quark" episode where Quark was teaching accounting to Klingons? Why haven't Unions advocated all union members knowing accounting? Economic Warfare means proper training for the warriors. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t3df...

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Ask ChatGPT what the effects would be by now if accounting had been mandatory in high schools since 1950.

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What about the "House of Quark" episode where Quark was teaching accounting to Klingons? Why haven't Unions advocated all union members knowing accounting? Economic Warfare means proper training for the warriors. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t3df...

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What about the "House of Quark" episode where Quark was teaching accounting to Klingons? Why haven't Unions advocated all union members knowing accounting? Economic Warfare means proper training for the warriors. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t3df...

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What about the "House of Quark" episode where Quark was teaching accounting to Klingons? Why haven't Unions advocated all union members knowing accounting? Economic Warfare means proper training for the warriors. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t3df...

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What about the "House of Quark" episode where Quark was teaching accounting to Klingons? Why haven't Unions advocated all union members knowing accounting? Economic Warfare means proper training for the warriors. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t3df...

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What about the "House of Quark" episode where Quark was teaching accounting to Klingons? Why haven't Unions advocated all union members knowing accounting? Economic Warfare means proper training for the warriors. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t3df...

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What about the "House of Quark" episode where Quark was teaching accounting to Klingons? Why haven't Unions advocated all union members knowing accounting? Economic Warfare means proper training for the warriors. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t3df...

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What about the "House of Quark" episode where Quark was teaching accounting to Klingons? Why haven't Unions advocated all union members knowing accounting? Economic Warfare means proper training for the warriors. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t3df...

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What about the "House of Quark" episode where Quark was teaching accounting to Klingons? Why haven't Unions advocated all union members knowing accounting? Economic Warfare means proper training for the warriors. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t3df...

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What about the "House of Quark" episode where Quark was teaching accounting to Klingons? Why haven't Unions advocated all union members knowing accounting? Economic Warfare means proper training for the warriors. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t3df...

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What about the "House of Quark" episode where Quark was teaching accounting to Klingons? Why haven't Unions advocated all union members knowing accounting? Economic Warfare means proper training for the warriors. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t3df...

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What about the "House of Quark" episode where Quark was teaching accounting to Klingons? Why haven't Unions advocated all union members knowing accounting? Economic Warfare means proper training for the warriors. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t3df...

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What about the "House of Quark" episode where Quark was teaching accounting to Klingons? Why haven't Unions advocated all union members knowing accounting? Economic Warfare means proper training for the warriors. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t3df...

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Paying $250 for a visa makes so much sense! Will it be possible to fix the crap and carnage created by the Preztard within a Decade after he is gone? Then we will have to tolerate the clowns that voted for him for Decades! When did economists advocate mandatory accounting in the schools though?

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Karl Marx used the word 'depreciation' 100+ times in Das Kapital. But there were no automobiles to depreciate back then. Do economists understand enough about technology to figure out Planned Obsolescence? What would the Depreciation of 200,000,000 motor vehicles amount to? The United States 1995!

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DIMocrats vs Repugnacans

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The oath says: "defend the Constitution" the issue is: "enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC". Is violation: "Dereliction of Duty"? So how does a military having taken that oath decide what to do? I can form my own opinion but I am not the General on the spot.

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Trump wouldn't look good even in a tan suit.

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So when/where have unions been promoting accounting. Dbl-Entry accounting is 700 yrs old. Why hasn't it been mandatory in schools since 1950? Adam Smith used the word 'education' EIGHTY Times. He wrote "read, write and ACCOUNT" FIVE times. Have Economists heard of him? He didn't know NDP tho!

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How abt mandatory accounting in the schools? Could have been done since 1950! How much have Americans lost on the depreciation of automobiles each yr since 1950? Would that be Capitalist or Socialist information? Karl Marx used the word 'depreciation' 100+ times in Das Kapital. No cars back then!

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So when/where have economists been promoting accounting. Dbl-Entry accnting is 700 yrs old. Why hasn't it been mandatory in schools since 1950? Adam Smith used the word 'education' EIGHTY Times. He wrote "read, write and ACCOUNT" FIVE times. Have Economists heard of him? He didn't know NDP tho!

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Far-Seer is a novel written Robert J. Sawyer. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-Seer It is the 1st book of the Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy, and is followed by: Fossil Hunter & Foreigner. The book depicts an Earth-like world on a moon orbiting a gas giant, inhabited by sentient Tyrannosaurs.

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Another one bites the dust! @korvo413.bsky.social has blocked you No recollection of this guy. Somewhen, somewhere I wrote something he didn't like. No Clue!

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Autopocalypse! m.youtube.com/watch?v=5hFX...

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m.youtube.com/watch?v=vVA_...

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The oath says: "defend the Constitution" the issue is: "enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC". Is violation: "Dereliction of Duty"? So how does a military having taken that oath decide what to do? I can form my own opinion but I am not the General on the spot.

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What do economists tell politicians about the NDP? Have economists lost the NDP in the Cash Flow? #EconSky Why no mandatory accounting in schools since Sputnik? Adam Smith wrote "read, write and ACCOUNT" FIVE times in Wealth of Nations. He used the word 'education' EIGHTY Times. see Alt text:

There is a Gross and there is a Net! Surprise, surprise! However something has been missing the Net for decades, which is the point of this discussion. Long ago Karl Marx used the word 'depreciation' 100+ times in Das Kapital. However he and everyone else spent their lives without automobiles to depreciate. So Marx was writing about the depreciation of Capital Goods. He mentioned
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Get an economics textbook. Search it for Net Domestic Product. Two PhD economists and one banker are blocking me here on BlueSky. bsky.app/profile/umbr...

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I typed "hoe" instead of "home" on another post. Saying that not all Boomers bought hoes.

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No you don't. I just did it. You remember the other guy, UNFTR! I never harassed this guy before. 😀 "Unrarchist" ??? 😂

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That was supposed to be "in high schools since 1950". Going to have to buy some new fingers.

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I posted comments on two of his YouTube videos: Aug 11 and Aug 29

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"GDP Growth"? Can economists not figure out NDP, NET Domestic Product, or is it actually not taught in Econ? Samuelson's Economics textbook was 600+ pages back in the 1970s. But the NNP, NET National Product, only got half of a page and was not mentioned in my Econ 101 class. Look it up yourself!

There were 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the United States in 1995. About 80% of them were owned by consumers. Americans lost Depreciation on the under engineered junk but economists never said how much it was. We are supposed to just buy replacements to add to GDP so that the new depreciation can be ignored. Sounds like technological slavery to me, but I am probably biased. 🤣
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What "Maybe"? He is probably an Imbecile. I don't understand why people pay attention to him at all. The Repugnacans have just gone bonkers since 2015!

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Economics makes more sense if regarded as a Power Game! Accounting could have been mandatory in high schools since 1950. The traditional social structure has decided that most of us are supposed to be losers who do not know the script. Screw the peons! 🤑 chevan.info/depreciation...

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The economics profession has been ignoring the depreciation of automobiles purchased by consumers since 1950. What have economists ever said about Planned Obsolescence? 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the US in 1995, 80% owned by consumers. NDP? bsky.app/profile/umbr... A new burden for the peons?

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Enrich which Boomers? How many Boomers never owned homes? Why wasn't accounting mandatory in high since 1950? Can the Economics Profession explain that?

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Dead white guys will live forever. Do text to speech with AIReader app. Cosmic Computer gutenberg.org/ebooks/20727 Damned If You Don't gutenberg.org/ebooks/24064 Black Man's Burden gutenberg.org/ebooks/32390 Badge of Infamy gutenberg.org/ebooks/19471 Omnilingual gutenberg.org/ebooks/19445

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m.youtube.com/watch?v=AEVD...

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Old childhood memory. m.youtube.com/watch?v=OAAq... Cry Me a River - Julie London

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Old childhood memory. m.youtube.com/watch?v=OAAq... Cry Me a River - Julie London

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Agent Orange - the Old One m.youtube.com/watch?v=CxVX...

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Repugnacans like what they got. The Real Republicans left the Party.

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I mostly just ignore him rather than wonder when he is lying. How can any competent people in the military stand this guy?

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It is really shocking that people can be so stupid that they cannot comprehend when they are shouting their stupidity from the rooftops. What is that line about remaining silent so as not to remove doubt?

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The oath says: "defend the Constitution" the issue is: "enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC". Is violation: "Dereliction of Duty"? So how does a military having taken that oath decide what to do? I can form my own opinion but I am not the General on the spot.

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You mean that is why economists with PhDs haven't seemed to be able to figure out Planned Obsolescence in automobiles by 1980, a Decade after the Moon Landing? It does seem kinda strange since WWII fighter planes could do 350 to 450 mph. They had 40 years to think about it.

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Some stuff by dead white guys is free. Text to speech with with AIReader app. Cosmic Computer gutenberg.org/ebooks/20727 Damned If You Don't gutenberg.org/ebooks/24064 Black Man's Burden gutenberg.org/ebooks/32390 Badge o Infamy gutenberg.org/ebooks/19471 Omnilingual gutenberg.org/ebooks/19445

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Try: Daemon & Freedom by Daniel Suarez Artificial Intelligence Cyber-Thriller en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_... One story across two books. Murder in 1st 3 pages but the culprit is already Dead. The FBI is not amused. No sense of humor, those guys.

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@davedaveson.bsky.social has blocked you

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Economists cannot change the Laws of Physics or properly apply mathematics to them. Physics makes machines wear out. Their being Capital or Consumer Goods makes no difference. Where is the Data the annual depreciation of cars purchased by consumers since Sputnik?

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Dbl-Entry Accounting is SEVEN HUNDRED YEARS old! Whose fault is it that it has not been mandatory in high schools since 1950?

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Dbl-Entry Accounting is SEVEN HUNDRED YEARS old! Whose fault is it that it has not been mandatory in high schools since 1950?

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A fixer-upper?

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Isn't that what is called "playing with your food"?

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"trouble finding talent" Does Trump have any kind of "talent"? Is repelling talent a "talent"?

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The economics profession has been ignoring the depreciation of automobiles purchased by consumers since 1950. What have economists ever said about Planned Obsolescence? 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the US in 1995, 80% owned by consumers. NDP? bsky.app/profile/umbr... A new burden for the peons?

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The oath says: "defend the Constitution" the issue is: "enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC". Is violation: "Dereliction of Duty"? So how does a military having taken that oath decide what to do? I can form my own opinion but I am not the General on the spot.

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Yeah, but you can't trust economists who cannot figure out Planned Obsolescence in automobiles half-a-century after the Moon Landing.

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Yeah, but you can't trust economists who cannot figure out Planned Obsolescence in automobiles half-a-century after the Moon Landing.

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The oath says: "defend the Constitution" the issue is: "enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC". Is violation: "Dereliction of Duty"? So how does a military having taken that oath decide what to do? I can form my own opinion but I am not the General on the spot.

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"Who?" Economists! Of course the female economists might have smartphones in their purses instead. But they beat slide rules. I asked a PhD economist (male) to explain how a gas engine worked. He couldn't even start, but he drove a white SUV.

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Anyone that is not biased against Trump must have a mental deficiency as severe as his.

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Are people with degrees necessarily smart? World War Two fighter planes could do 350 to 450 mph and were designed by engineers with slide rules? Should economists with PhDs wonder about Planned Obsolescence in cars half-a-century after the Moon Landing? Don't they have computers in their pockets?

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Yeah, but you can't trust economists who cannot figure out Planned Obsolescence in automobiles half-a-century after the Moon Landing.

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Yeah, but you can't trust economists who cannot figure out Planned Obsolescence in automobiles half-a-century after the Moon Landing.

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"deeply irrational" That is a nice description. Is it significantly different from "Stupid"?

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The oath says: "defend the Constitution" the issue is: "enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC". Is violation: "Dereliction of Duty"? So how does a military having taken that oath decide what to do? I can form my own opinion but I am not the General on the spot.

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The oath says: "defend the Constitution" the issue is: "enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC". Is violation: "Dereliction of Duty"? So how does a military having taken that oath decide what to do? I can form my own opinion but I am not the General on the spot.

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The economics profession has been ignoring the depreciation of automobiles purchased by consumers since 1950. What have economists ever said about Planned Obsolescence? 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the US in 1995, 80% owned by consumers. NDP? bsky.app/profile/umbr... A new burden for the peons?

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Does anyone really believe that Trump can figure out the consequences of his actions when other people may change their behavior as a result? Can Trump play chess worth a damn? He is just an egomaniac with delusions of grandeur who cannot accept that other players are smarter. He is wrecking usA!

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Dbl-Entry Accounting is SEVEN HUNDRED YEARS old! Whose fault is it that it has not been mandatory in high schools since 1950?

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Trump inflicted! Who voted for that idiot? .

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Below age 10 it is Naive. Over age 10 it is Stupid!

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\downloads

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Then where are you supposed to put the hammer to break the goblet?

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When/where do you hear economists advocating mandatory accounting in schools? How can they not discuss the NET Domestic Product for 60 years? They are players in the game unless they are completely stupid. Schools teach students how to think about a subject, not the actual subject. 🤣

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bsky.app/profile/umbr...

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Global Mind War? m.youtube.com/watch?v=khFC...

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When/where have economists been advocating mandatory accounting in the schools since 1950? How much of the depreciation of automobiles is the result of Planned Obsolescence? Do Economists know about planned obsolescence? Shouldn't they have figured it out by 1980, a Decade after the MOON Landing?

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What is the place of Planned Obsolescence in History now? I just regard it as high technology Slavery. Adam Smith used the word 'education' EIGHTY Times in Wealth of Nations and wrote "read, write and ACCOUNT" FIVE times. So why no mandatory accounting in high schools?

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She is going to die anyway!

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He has been braindead for years.

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ROFL What is the point of that?

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OMG! Someone complaining about Planned Obsolescence in 1964? Get those Beetles and take them back to England. 🤣 It was Net National Product that economists didn't talk about then. Now it is Net Domestic Product. 🤫 m.youtube.com/watch?v=pXGl...

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