Ask them the population of the US, GDP and the revenue of Walmart. It’ll trigger a lot of fintwit but they’ll be nowhere close
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Replying to @Post_Market @eyemightbewrong
Why would anyone other than an equities analyst or PM need to know Walmart’s revenue? I’ll give you the other two.
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Why would anyone need to know when WW2 was? It’s just “sometime in recent history”
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Lot of guys basing a lot of their personality on “knowing a lot about WW2” — don’t tell them it’s not that important, it’ll be devastating.
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Good sense of timeline, sure, understanding of how past events led to the present, sure, exact dates? Not so much.
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Zooming out I think the problem is that everyone has their own idea of what should be “required knowledge” and they are all pretty different and in many cases non overlapping. For you it’s history and basic math, for someone else it’s literature or world geography or economics
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or auto mechanics or cooking or music or how to change a fuse. Probably you fall into the dead zone for what someone else considers essential knowledge, all this stuff is just really personal and subjective.
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So for me it doesn’t make much sense to judge someone else on what they do/don’t know esp if they are only 25, they will probably learn the important shit later. There’s a ton of stuff I didn’t know when I was 25 and tbh there’s a ton of stuff I don’t know now even though I
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think I’m reasonably well educated (like uh… how to change a fuse).
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