• Vespair@lemm.ee
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    7 hours ago

    you:

    True but you need to know more than someone who only has a GED is going to know about macroeconomics and diplomacy.

    me:

    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.

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        3 hours ago

        I was not. But counter-point, we have no idea idea what Taylor Swift does with her free time. For all we know she love economics and has spent the last decade devoting all her free time to the deep study thereof. The point is this is hardly outside the realm of feasibility, and there’s no reason to over-celebrate degree or downplay the real viability of autodidacticism.