Socialists are not ready for the number of spreadsheets and graphs that will be needed under socialist economic planning

@MohammedSarker1 The USSR loved engineers. It was the big path to leadership.

@constans Oh I know! The people sociology/liberal arts majors hate the most would be even more essential to the functioning of society. Ironically communism would be amazing for the Wall Street bankers capable of surviving the gulags since their services would be even more indispensable

@MohammedSarker1 @constans Lol you’re acting like English majors aren’t overwhelmingly libs. The hard science people tend to be much more leftists as they have a better understanding of material consequences.

@FactsMatterPpl @constans Academia generally skews left but I'd argue more of the hard left came from the humanities and social sciences and moreso on the sociology end than the economics side.

@MohammedSarker1 @constans I love the idea that Econ and Finance are STEM

@MarkyMarg2 @constans they're social sciences (moreso the former) so they are grey but are more adjacent to that than they are humanities that are un-empirical that is for sure

@MohammedSarker1 @constans Is this just y’all projecting?

@MohammedSarker1 @constans I’d wager that much of the software you currently use relies on Open Source somewhere in its tech stack. Not to say FOSS == Socialism but just that a lot of tech you use today already benefits from being developed through modes of production that aren’t traditionally capitalist.