What was your "I can't believe I have to explain this to an adult" moment?
What was your "I can't believe I have to explain this to an adult" moment?
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I've had to explain tariffs a lot lately...
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I work for a wine importer. I literally have to sign legal documents attesting to the payment of tariffs before containers are taken off of ships. The amount of times this week I have had to explain that I do understand how tariffs work is too many.
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I used to work for an import/export middleman company a decade ago, data analytics, db management, executive report production, etc.
I feel your pain.
I've spent a decade now explaining basic economics to idiots, and my conclusion is America is doomed.
Does it matter that I have degrees in Econ and Poli Sci? Years of experience with all kinds of data analytics work?
Nope. Some idiot used car salesman has a gut feeling, some HVAC maintenance guy can't grasp algebra.
Therefore I am wrong.
... and now we reap what we have sewn.
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sown*, ironically
you're reaping a sown harvest of grain
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Ah, you're right, haha.
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Ooh actually could you type out that explanation cuz having a like, concrete “here’s a persons job who deals with this” way to explain it may be handy. (But also you don’t gotta if you’re super tired of it.)
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You might be interested in this video: https://youtu.be/xwZT_nisxsQ
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Haha I had to ask about them in ELI5
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Can you explain them to me? I'm starting to have my doubts.
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