Idiocracy, the best movie ever made.
Posted on 08/15/2023 6:02:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
What many humans don’t realize is how math illiteracy will impact one's ability to lead a successful life in the modern world.
Math is essential for managing personal finances.
Many Americans are living paycheck to paycheck not just because of low wages, but because of their inability to budget money for daily, monthly, and emergency expenses.
Budgeting is basic applied math to the real world of prices or money.
Of course there are budgeting apps which can help to some extent because the apps do some of the math for you. However, ultimately, you must become very aware of how much you are paying for each item or your total purchases will easily exceed your budget allotment. So few of us can be considered to be thrifty shoppers.
Another very important factor, which is not that obvious, is the discipline needed to spend money within or below the budget. This is basically an ability to say 'no' to most purchases for high price items and say no need to purchase right away. Without disciplined purchases, most of us just resort to impulse shopping which many of us are addicted to. So, budgeting is very useful, but unfortunately, only some have the discipline to take advantage of the benefits of budgeting and apply budgeting to their daily lives.
Math plays a crucial role in decision-making in society and without basic math skills you severely handicap yourself and your lifestyle.
Humans should use math to create budgets, calculate expenses, track savings, understand interest rates, manage loans, and plan for retirement.
Consumer math-based decisions are important in comparing prices, discounts, price per pound, product durability, and evaluating the best value for the money.
In health care, math is used in medical research, drug dosage calculations, analyzing medical data, understanding disease patterns, developing treatment plans.
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It seems to be what the Left and the deep-state want from public schooling - pliant citizens. Blacks and immigrants already seem to be bagged, tagged and in the truck.
I tell you 1 + 1 makes 3
I write a song, then proceed to worship someone who fits the song to a “T”
“You gave me power in your God’s Name!”
Wow, was that ever fulfilled.
And they STILL didn’t “get it”
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Simple math textbooks from the 1940s and earlier are solid ways to teach all of the basics. No nonsense stuff. Those books taught all the basic operations and also taught practical skills regarding business profits, bank loans, investing, handling money, making a budget. All you need.
The education establishment made a conscious choice to move away from such subject matter and instead focus on Set Theory, Matrices, and other silly stuff that led us to Common Core.
We were at a Big Lots last evening to buy a bag of cat food.
The cashier could not make change for a $5.83 bag of cat food from a $10 bill because he didn’t know how unless the computer told him...................
Not “ math “ , but arithmetic .
Idiocracy, the best movie ever made.
“I like money.”
Idiocracy is the best documentary ever made.
A few weeks ago we were in a new seafood restaurant in our area. The female server was maybe 20 and told us the special that day was oysters on the half shell for 75 cents each.
Just to clarify I said “so a dozen is nine dollars right?”
Her reply?........”um....I’m just a server, I don’t do math”.........WHAT??!!
Hilarity would have ensued.
Folks should take a look at McGuffey Readers sometime.
Idiocracy is the best Barack Hussein Obama documentary ever made.
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I’m surprised she didn’t exclaim: “It has electrolytes!”
I doubt that little dingaling could even spell electrolytes......much less know the definition.
2 + 2 = 5 - Radiohead
Are you such a dreamer
To put the world to rights?
I’ll stay home forever
Where two and two always makes up five
I’ll lay down the tracks
Sandbag and hide
January has April’s showers
And two and two always makes up five
It’s the devil’s way now
There is no way out
You can scream and you can shout
It is too late now
Because you have not been
Payin’ attention
Payin’ attention
Payin’ attention
Payin’ attention
You have not been paying attention
Payin’ attention
Payin’ attention
Payin’ attention
You have not been paying attention
Payin’ attention
Payin’ attention
Payin’ attention
You have not been paying attention
Payin’ attention
Payin’ attention
Payin’ attention oohh
I try to sing along
But the music’s all wrong
‘Cause I’m not
‘Cause I’m not
I swat ‘em like flies
But like flies the buggers
Keep coming back
And not
But I’m not
All hail to the thief
All hail to the thief
But I’m not
But I’m not
But I’m not
But I’m not
Don’t question my authority or put me in a box
‘Cause I’m not
‘Cause I’m not
Oh go and tell the king
That the sky is falling in
But it’s not
But it’s not
But it’s not
Maybe not
Maybe not
Maybe that’s what I need.
Me and math were never friends.
The math whiz in the family is my sister who laughs and burns through algebra, calc, trigonometry.
Another really good way to confuse many cashiers is to give them a $10 and a $1 for a $5.83 purchase when you’d rather have a $5 in your wallet than four more $1 bills. When they try to hand the $1 back, I just tell them to let the machine figure it out.
Should have handed over $11.08.....
Dang autocorrect...
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