(No, seriously, "biotech is using AI to develop new drugs" is unironically amazing.)

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I unironically think Big Pharma is good and request postings on Neon Liberalism/the Currents about how developmentalist policy could be used to further invest in science and biomedical R&D even in frontier economies.

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They also can't comprehend the reality that the existence of debt (particularly mortgage debt, but also non-secured debt like credit cards), properly managed with a good financial education, is a powerful tool for elevating the lower-middle class into the middle class.

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Bad news. My school did have a mandatory economics and money management class as part of graduation requirements. Nobody remembers them because they didn’t care at the time. In fact, my classmates regularly post “why didn’t anyone teach us about taxes in school” when they did.

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Even the Soviets devoted considerable attention to finance, notwithstanding the old "they pretend to pay us & we pretend to work" wheeze. It went all the way down to special "beryozka" stores where Soviets who'd obtained hard currency & foreign tourists could buy otherwise unobtainable goods.

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