As a person who’s about to head to University in a few months and currently does Maths, Computer Science, and Business Studies, I can definitely state that any degree/subject which involves liberal topics such as Economics and Political Science are useless.
As an example, in Business Studies, it’s always about the business. They just put the thing out there, “the business is what matters”. Of course they delve into ethics and stuff but they don’t care about that because businesses are supposed to be the best option. It’s just capitalist realism combined with writing too much.
Economics is similar, it just doesn’t involve businesses as much. It’s just: “keep the economy going, line go up means world more gooder.” It’s an absolute joke. People with Economics or PoliSci degrees are also utterly atrocious and worse than marxists who don’t hold any degree of the sort.
I’m surprised that this shit is being taught to begin with. It’s all liberal nonsense, really. I don’t have much on PoliSci, but someone here made a series of posts where it delves into the liberal nature of PoliSci.
I see Libertarians advocating for microtransactions as it is “how the consumer spends that benefits the corporation” bullshit.
Instead of Libertarians seeing capitalism advancing towards the usual notion of maximising profits, they just see as consumers helping the corporations and thus it should be perfectly legal to do so. Games become worse due to their “efficiency” (efficiency meaning to extract as much profit as possible) by laying off employees, replacing them with contract work, utilising microtransactions, especially if the game is Free to Play. Did this all happen when the consumer spend their game or was it due to the capitalist because he wanted to maximise profits?
The libertarians argue “They should just stop spending if they don’t like the company!” but this doesn’t explain why capitalists make a tendency towards maximising profits. Then they argue about " ““social”” enterprises " and whatnot. In other words, what they explain (i.e. the products consumers buy), doesn’t explain the general tendency of capitalism, nor political economy in general.
This means that these libertarians have nothing to explain. Their arguments don’t explain anything. They don’t explain capitalism. Selective Apathy is nothing more than ignorance. They don’t care about other people, they only care if they are not affected, or if this practice helps them in some way or another. This line of thinking of “I don’t care what you do” can be extrapolated to many horrible ideas that libertarians or liberals can cling on to. We can also argue this is an aspect of alienation, but I made my point. This is just another aspect of individualism.