Comments by "ncwordman" (@ncwordman) on "DEAR GOD: They have NO IDEA how tariffs work!" video.

Some people will choose to never learn, because that involves admitting they didn't know it to start with.
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@Arkved1978 Interesting. I'd assumed it was the us-vs-them mentality. But that's a more intriguing theory.
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"They have no idea how anything works" At first I read that as "I have no idea how anything works". I was about to applaud your honesty. But I read it a second time, and saw it was just another dig against "the other." Have you ever thought about the ratio of what you know, to what you don't know? I can assure you, no matter who you are, that ratio is so close to zero, it might as well be zero. But yeah: Point at "them."
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There are people who are too insecure to admit, even to themselves, that they don't know everything. So just the act of looking up something would undermine their fragile sense of self. They can't even look up how to spell something, when spell check tells them it's wrong.
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You remember 6th grade history class? How old are you? I'm 54 and can't even remember what classes I took in 12th grade, let alone the content of the classes.
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@kiraward1125 How long ago was that? Even with classes in which I paid attention, I can't recall all the details of it 30 years later.
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Was I taught it in high school? That was 36 years ago. Was the lesson taught, maybe, and I wasn't paying attention? Who knows! That was 36 years ago. My point is you can't expect the entirety of what you learned in high school to survive intact in your memory for decades, even if you were paying attention. I have some memories of high school. But not tariffs. We learn throughout life, not just in high school. No one knows everything: It's impossible. So we choose to learn from the overwhelming list of things we don't know, which cross our paths daily. We learn daily. We don't just stop learning after the 12th grade, or even after all formal education. It's up to us to learn: Stop blaming it on teachers we had decades ago.
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Do you assume people are going to remember everything they learned in high school? I don't, because it was over three decades ago. I can't even remember if it was taught. Knowledge doesn't stay intact, in your memory, forever. It, or parts of it, will evaporate. The only thing is for us to be willing to learn, when something we don't know crosses our path.
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@julioenriq3322 I'm sorry. You asked, in a seemingly rhetorical way, why people skipped their classes. So I assumed you expected everyone to remember those classes, if they didn't skip them. What were you saying, then? Sometimes it helps to write more than one sentence, so you can clarify what you mean.
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@ChixieMary I remember my life too. I don't remember everything that was taught in high school. Just because you remembered this thing, doesn't mean others will. The point here is we learn throughout life, not just in high school. We have to teach ourselves, when we come upon things we don't know, like tariffs. Are you still learning? Teaching yourself advanced math, physics, foreign languages, musical instruments, literature, music? Or coasting on what you learned in high school?
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@hughmacfarlane3947 "you are in a lot of trouble my friend." How am I in trouble? I have to ask, because you didn't say.
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@ChixieMary You wrote, "I remember my life." Sounds like everything to me. Or were you being hyperbolic? We are all different from each other: no better or worse, because we're different.
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@ChixieMary I didn't make any assumptions. You wrote, "I remember my life." Last time I checked, a life is everything in that life. Fewer emojis, more thinking please.
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@ChixieMary You wrote, "I remember my life." A life is everything in that life. If you think of a life as the set of all possible sets, everything in that life is a subset of it. Or did you never study set theory? And my memory is fine. I just don't remember everything that was taught in high school over 30 years ago.
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@sayfolman7752 That's like saying you don't have time to exercise, which you need to maintain a healthy body. Reading is needed to maintain a healthy mind. Otherwise, you get out of shape, resulting in the decline of your health. You'll lose the ability to think clearly and critically.
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