Sylence Wrote:
Thank you Unkas&Co for putting this question as I totally agree with the ideal you describe.
I voted, a o, both for "learned a lot" and "learned a bit". The amount I've learned perhaps is somewhere between a "lot" and a "bit"
But most essentially I want to make a remark about "learning"...
Particularly the value of the game is how it incites to and offers a framework for posing relevant questions concerning economics and politics.
This is as it ought to be. Schools teach naked answers to questions never posed and this is useless. What has value is the questions we pose - an answer will sooner or later arrive. What answer we receive is a function of the question we found. It's in developing the question the real work is laid down. A good game can be regarded as a good question!
As such it is not only a question of learning about the real world from the game, but it is also thought-provoking concerning how well the game simulates the real world.
Therefore the forum discussion is an essential part of the package.
(Helsworth is a treasure! He brings a task to understand what he is talking about and then to find out whether I agree with him or no.)
I voted, a o, both for "learned a lot" and "learned a bit". The amount I've learned perhaps is somewhere between a "lot" and a "bit"
But most essentially I want to make a remark about "learning"...Particularly the value of the game is how it incites to and offers a framework for posing relevant questions concerning economics and politics.
This is as it ought to be. Schools teach naked answers to questions never posed and this is useless. What has value is the questions we pose - an answer will sooner or later arrive. What answer we receive is a function of the question we found. It's in developing the question the real work is laid down. A good game can be regarded as a good question!
As such it is not only a question of learning about the real world from the game, but it is also thought-provoking concerning how well the game simulates the real world.
Therefore the forum discussion is an essential part of the package.
(Helsworth is a treasure! He brings a task to understand what he is talking about and then to find out whether I agree with him or no.)
Thanks, Sylence.
I resisted a little bit at first the arguments offered by MMT. But then, after I understood that it was all basic double-entry bookkeeping & laws/penalties that enforced the rules (used for good or ill) - it all became clear & I became a deficit owl. Believe me, it's a frustrating existence. You find yourself amidst the ranks of the insane & you try to escape them... but the reality & (false) debates always bring you back; and once more you try to tell people about the other 1/2 of the balance sheet.
