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I won’t ever forget a macroeconomics lecture I had back in university. It was in line with “To accumulate wealth, you either have to exploit the planet, other

• wolpoli 5y ago
  > To accumulate wealth, you either have to exploit the planet, other nations or it’s own people. This applies for countries, companies and even individuals. That's an excellent way to put it. Our regional Dental Surgeon association constantly runs ads encouraging people to become dental hygienist, explaining that it is a great career. It's obvious through why the association wants more hygienists - Dental office needs to hire and pay for Dental hygienists, which are owned by Dental Surgeons. These days, tech companies and executives constantly encourage people to learn to code because it is supposed to be a great career. I couldn't think of other reasons beyond the obvious altruistic reason of just wanting to make everyone better off by guiding them towards this career. /s Really, the issue is that many young people in software hadn't taken many social science or business courses so they hadn't seen how society/politics/business work until later in their career.