Breaking Bad recommended by The Economist

i certainly learned a lot from breaking bad that they didn't cover in my MBA coursework...

Definitely. Mainly economics issues... supply and demand, oligopoly, supply chain management, international business, law, management,... it's all there. It's wildly entertaining, too.

Granted I'm not done watching the series (just finished season 3) but I think that's stretching it by quite a bit. Yes, sure some supply/demand and I guess even strategy concepts are discussed but only in passing and only at a very high level. Claiming it's a replacement for even a good 30m review of Wikipedia is pushing it.

I think Breaking Bad is good, but I think there are WAAAAY too many people wanting to suck on it's hoohaa.

The economist and everybody else who drools over Walter White omits the fact that every dollar bill that goes through his hands is a life that was destroyed.

..And before you respond with "This show does not celebrate drug use", my response is "I know. It omits the fact all together, despite the fact that the entire premise of the show is about drugs." People forget the fact that most meth users end up in compost heaps while their family has to pick up the pieces...and this show rides on their back while ignoring them completely.

The economist is completely incorrect, and just sucking Walter White's knob for the following reasons:
-The Supply destroys the Demand and must continue finding new resources. This is not IN ANY WAY A CLOSED-LOOP SYSTEM.
-The money that is delivered to the supplier is generally STOLEN from other sources, instead of recieved from other economic structures. Stealing another person's reasources IS NOT IN ANY WAY A CLOSED-LOOP SYSTEM. This BREAKS the ECONOMIC MODEL that exists today. I am sorry, but the Meth-heads I have known are not capable of working or earning their own money.
-If everybody became a drug dealer, the economic model would destroy itself and collapse.

When I was young, there was one wise voice in my life that taught me that moral ambiguity means social destruction. I have also grown up with drug dealers. It is wierd to me that people "Hate" moral ambiguity, yet give up everything for this show and cling to Walter's character like Jesus. He is no different than any other drug dealer I have known. And I have never known a drug dealer who is good with economics. They are just lucky.

It's a good show...But to say it is a lesson in economics...That is BS. If it were a useable model, then everybody should be allowed to do it and there would be no break in other economic models because of it.

Edited by lifejustice 2013-10-01 12:15 PM

Have you been on reddit lately? yes. Nice try avoiding all of the other points, though.

Edited by lifejustice 2013-10-01 12:23 PM