He gave us revision questions that he never gave us the answers to.

"Explain how economic rent can pay to any factor of production" well I barely know what economic rent is, let me check the notes. Oh we've only done two of the four factors of production? Oh economic rent is literally never mentioned in the notes? Oh the only time he brought it up in class was when talking about land, and never in labour? Oh well, I'll come back to this question.

"What is quasi-rent?" Quasi rent? The fuck? What the hell is that? I'll just check the notes. Oh look, the notes never mention quasi-rent. I love economics, favorite class great teacher AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH

  • shitshow [any]
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    4 years ago

    I took a class called something like "The Global Economy and the Environment" or something. The whole class was about how unregulated capitalism destroys the environment, yet every session the libertarian kid in the front would try to argue with the teacher about how there could be a "free market solution."

    • kilternkafuffle [any]
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      4 years ago

      Had the dumbest libertarian kid in class that regularly argued with the professor about things like more education/more health/less teenage pregnancy being good ("I just want to make money!" Literally that bad.). The sad part was that the professor was ancient (like, Biden-ancient), so while he had very well-researched material prepared, he couldn't really follow the arguments - especially given how absolutely dumb they were, so it devolved into a mess of misunderstanding.

      I confronted the guy repeatedly after class because it was ruining every other lecture (the guy would also talk over the professor), eventually telling him that it's fine that he wanted to share his perspective, but that he should also try to learn what academics can teach him - he replied he already knew what they had to say, so for him class was just an opportunity to spout his bit about abolishing Social Security and w/e.