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Why study Economics, when you can be mathematically illiterate and make it to US President?

[1] " "We've cut drug prices by 1200, 1300, 1400, 1500 percent. I don't mean 50 percent. I mean 14-, 1500 percent,"

[1] - https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-doubles-down-impossibl...

This is unrelated and divisive. How does it have to do with the actual content of the post?

Yeap :-) Pointing out that 1500% reductions are mathematically impossible is incredibly divisive. I am really splitting the room between people who passed 4th grade math and people who didn't.

If someone making US economic policy with a team of PhD advisors can say this unchallenged, then maybe that's exactly why economics education isn't fit for the 21st century. We made basic arithmetic a partisan issue.

This thread isn’t about Trump

Amazing what LLMs and the power of AI can do for you! Economists take note, you are all going to be replaced by ChatGPT 5. Future POTUS, AI literacy will now be your core competency.

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