throwawaygal7
Joined 5 years ago
Joined 5 years ago
We sacrifice our time with our children for future career earnings to maximize lifetime income. People in this discussion throw around terms like GDP growth due to increased labour market participation from working moms...
It's ok just to accept what's happening. its not like you don't know what you're doing. Life is full of unpleasant tradeoffs.
An easy way to see this is to look at a topic that is split in the academy along geographical lines - the entry in wiki will often favour whatever region the original cabal sided with and give the other short thrift.
Meeting a wikipedia admin in real life is often eye opening and explains some of these choices.
The old encyclopedias were more transparent; siding with their own cultures scholars in a way that was generally more uniform. Wiki masquerades as the final objective authority but has the same old issues burried and obscured.
Even an undergrad intro course on a given historical subject will often come into violent conflict with a given entry.
The best entries are scientific topics, like botany or physics - and this impression of mine is probbaly based on ignorance.