I have to agree with V, Economics is by far the most revenge filled of all the sciences. Everybody thinks they know how it works and everybody wants to use it for their own purposes. It’s probably the most political of all the sciences too, except maybe evolutionary biology.
IQ is right, though. Economics may be politicized by politicians and the media, but it’s still a social science (and, in IQ’s mind, not applicable to her statements on revenge, which she believes only applies to the natural sciences).
Of course, saying economics is a social science can come off as a political statement in and of itself. Not because it’s inherently political, but because the term ‘social science’ has been slandered by some (ironically including some economists) to disparage those who study them as ‘not being useful to society’.
Hence the push by (some) economists to insist their field of study be called a ‘science’ rather than a ‘social science’.
Of course, the joke here is that both V and IQ are both tacitly acknowledging economists as being more revenge filled than natural scientists. But IQ dismisses it because ‘economics is not real science’ (and hence not worthy of a revenge budget) while V is too ditzy to understand the distinction and interprets IQ’s rant as ‘crazy’ for the wrong reasons (right for the wrong reasons).
I have to agree with V, Economics is by far the most revenge filled of all the sciences. Everybody thinks they know how it works and everybody wants to use it for their own purposes. It’s probably the most political of all the sciences too, except maybe evolutionary biology.
IQ is right, though. Economics may be politicized by politicians and the media, but it’s still a social science (and, in IQ’s mind, not applicable to her statements on revenge, which she believes only applies to the natural sciences).
Of course, saying economics is a social science can come off as a political statement in and of itself. Not because it’s inherently political, but because the term ‘social science’ has been slandered by some (ironically including some economists) to disparage those who study them as ‘not being useful to society’.
Hence the push by (some) economists to insist their field of study be called a ‘science’ rather than a ‘social science’.
Of course, the joke here is that both V and IQ are both tacitly acknowledging economists as being more revenge filled than natural scientists. But IQ dismisses it because ‘economics is not real science’ (and hence not worthy of a revenge budget) while V is too ditzy to understand the distinction and interprets IQ’s rant as ‘crazy’ for the wrong reasons (right for the wrong reasons).
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I do have to say this, V has been tied up for the longest time in this comic series 🙂
Several hours a day.
It’s a good thing she’s immortal, or she’d die from being unable to move and having no place to go all the time.
True but then bordom would set in :p
Vengeance drove modern science… so thoughtful. Might as well add genetically modified organisms and high frequency trading!
It’s amazing the progress we’ve made out of revenge.
Oh the commentary on this page is too good, I love it!
Yeah, everyone knows classical physicists aren’t quite as revenge-focused as high energy physics.