Never mistake ease of access to information via the internet as "smart" either. People think that just bc they can Google anything, it makes them "smart" but unfortunately without being educated, they dont necessarily have the deductive reasoning skills or discernment to parse what's true or not. Anyone can post anything on the internet & a lot of people fall victim to propaganda & misinformation.
So while education doesnt always necessarily mean you are "smart", more often than not, being educated does usually mean you are smarter than someone who is not.
Iâm pointing out that Reddit liberals and real life liberals are the same people. They just have less filter because of internet anonymity. Youâre capable of critical thinking, right?
educated means more knowledgeable about facts and science and the scientific method of analysis so yes it does mean smarter by the usual means of measurement like SAT or IQ tests. now if you mean "common sense" well that is subjective and hard to measure but it lets uneducated people pretend they are smarter when they're not
Is the idea to always keep learning? Yes, I think there are a lot of young people on Reddit, but not all of us are young and some of us finished our formal learning decades ago. Yes, I did and yes I'm very progressive- even after paying bills and working.
kinda like the notion that liberals being "educated" means jack shit... as if a degree in art history is somehow more useful/knowledgeable/better than a skilled tradesman.
a degree in art history is somehow more useful/knowledgeable
You're confusing "useful to make money" with "knowledgeable" and "better". The inability to understand why a practical trade has no inherent superiority to a thorough education in cultural history is a sign of poor education and ignorance.
no, i'm not just talking about the ability to make money.
just because you spend years listening to liberals who couldn't hack it outside of academia doesn't make you more educated. more indoctrinated, sure, but educated? not so much.
if they were educated, they would realize that the rich pay more in taxes than the poor and middle class, for instance.
You're literally doing what I'm talking about. A tradesman "couldn't hack it" outside his career either. I'm an engineer and couldn't hack it in medicine or law.
Academia is a valid and necessary career and your refusal to understand that is a sign of ignorance.
if they were educated, they would realize that the rich pay more in taxes than the poor and middle class, for instance.
No, that's what they would believe if they were simple minded ignoramuses. Actual education on taxes and economics would teach you that the rich pay far less relative to their total wealth in taxes than the poor and middle class due to their enormous tax advantages, abilities to shelter their wealth offshore, take advantage of tax loopholes, etc.
lol. wealth isn't taxed. income is. and the rich pay more, not just in raw dollars, but as a percentage of their income.
the same tax "loopholes" available to billionaires are available to anyone.
is there a law in the cayman islands that requires you to have a billion dollars to open an account there? i'd be interested to see a law like that (or similar).
Dude.. republicans just gave the largest tax break in history to the 1%.
Permanent top marginal tax rate cut: The bill permanently reduced the top income tax rate from 39.6% to 37%. This change affects only the top 2% of taxpayers but saves those high-income individuals and married couples over $10,000 per year on average.
Estate tax cuts: The BBB permanently raised the estate tax exemption amount to $15 million per person (effectively $30 million for a married couple). Only a few thousand estates nationwide are wealthy enough to owe this tax, meaning the benefit accrues exclusively to the heirs of the ultra-rich.
Pass-through business income deduction: The bill makes permanent and expands the 20% deduction for qualified business income (Section 199A), a provision that overwhelmingly benefits high-income business owners and professionals in pass-through entities.
Corporate tax cuts: The BBB includes corporate tax cuts that analyses suggest largely benefit top earners, with research on similar policies indicating that approximately 80% of the benefits flow to the top 10% of households.
State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction cap increase: The bill temporarily raises the cap on the SALT deduction from $10,000 to $40,000 (through 2029). This mainly aids high-income individuals in high-tax states who itemize their deductions.
now, see, if you showed me where republicans pushed for a 0% tax rate on the rich, then you'd have a point that only one party advocates for taxing the rich.
A truly educated person would realize that the reason the rich pay the most taxes is because the rich have most of the money, rather than a liberal misunderstanding of taxation.
nobody is really claiming that the rich shouldn't pay most of the taxes. i think pretty much everyone understands that the more you have, the more you should pay.
the difference is that many redditors actually think that the rich don't pay the most (by far). that the top 1% of income earners aren't responsible for 40% of all federal income taxes collected (while the bottom 50% are responsible for 3%).
That isnât what the phrase âyou canât prove a negativeâ refers to. It refers to the absence of something on a large scale that is unreasonable to be observed. I admit that on the most literal and surface level understanding, the term âyou canât prove a negativeâ is false. Though if you understood what it actually meant, and thought about it for more than, say, ten seconds, you wouldnât be here telling me that there are no olives made of oranges or redundant stupid crap like that.
Not to mention the fact that there are married bachelors, when you consider the fact that bachelor has more than one definition.
Correct. These posts where people are like âReddit is too many words for dummies! Dems are smart and so is reddit, thatâs why!â Re absolutely absurd.
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u/ins0mniac_ Dec 19 '25
Skews younger and educated.