A democratic leader needs to accurately represent their constituents and surround themselves with knowledgeable experts. No matter how well-schooled someone is, no one person can know everything involved in running a country.
A degree doesn’t prove a person actually applied themselves and absorbed the information, and auto-didacts can absolutely study macroecon and diplomacy.
You can absolutely self-teach math and macroecon. I’m not trying to claim that Swift has, or would, or that it is an easy thing to teach, but the idea that it is somehow outside the bounds of the auto-didact is absurd.
Yes, and presumably anyone in the position we’re talking about is somebody who would have devoted a decade to their education in the field. Do you think I’m talking about “I do my own research” types? No, I’m talking about real actual auto-didacts.
Definitionally we aren’t talking about “your average person who has a GED,” Jesus fucking Christ.
We are talking about Taylor Swift. There is absolutely no indication she has these abilities you are assigning her. She really IS someone who just has a GED in terms of their education.
True but you need to know more than someone who only has a GED is going to know about macroeconomics and diplomacy.
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A degree doesn’t prove a person actually applied themselves and absorbed the information, and auto-didacts can absolutely study macroecon and diplomacy.
The topic started about Swift, but your claim was bigger than her. Thus my response was to your larger claim, not about Swift.
A democratic leader needs to accurately represent their constituents and surround themselves with knowledgeable experts. No matter how well-schooled someone is, no one person can know everything involved in running a country.
As our Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott once said, “No man is a suppository”. Lol.
True but you need to know more than someone who only has a GED is going to know about macroeconomics and diplomacy.
A degree doesn’t prove a person actually applied themselves and absorbed the information, and auto-didacts can absolutely study macroecon and diplomacy.
The lack of a degree is what is relevant here because it proves what they haven’t been educated in.
She lacks all of the relevant math to be able to study macro. It’s not a subject that lends itself to self teaching.
You can absolutely self-teach math and macroecon. I’m not trying to claim that Swift has, or would, or that it is an easy thing to teach, but the idea that it is somehow outside the bounds of the auto-didact is absurd.
Im guessing you have zero education in either. It would take her a decade to catch up given how far back her education is compared to the norm.
Think about how much your average person who has a GED knows, there is zero reason to expect Swift to be better educated than that person.
Yes, and presumably anyone in the position we’re talking about is somebody who would have devoted a decade to their education in the field. Do you think I’m talking about “I do my own research” types? No, I’m talking about real actual auto-didacts.
Definitionally we aren’t talking about “your average person who has a GED,” Jesus fucking Christ.
We are talking about Taylor Swift. There is absolutely no indication she has these abilities you are assigning her. She really IS someone who just has a GED in terms of their education.
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The topic started about Swift, but your claim was bigger than her. Thus my response was to your larger claim, not about Swift.