▲ 207 r/antiwork
An interesting article about employee-ownership states that if all private firms in the United States became 30% employee-owned, household wealth in the country would effectively double
"Research suggests employee-ownership can be an effective means of closing the wealth gap. A 2021 Harvard Business School study citing government data found that if all private firms in the U.S. became 30% employee-owned, household wealth in the country would effectively double. In contrast, the wealth of the richest Americans would decrease as a result of this model, with the top 1% of wealth holders seeing an average 14% decrease in their net wealth."
Imagine being unwilling to give up 14% of your wealth, so that everyone else could increase by 100%
Edited: bad at math
u/THExWHITExDEVILx — 30 days ago
▲ 5 r/learnmath
Why can't I remember anything?
I returned to college last year and I am having a terrible time with my math class. I'm in my 40s, and I'll admit that understanding math has been a lifelong struggle. I dropped out of college in my early 20s, and after getting out of the army recently, I decided to try and finish my degree. Last semester was an adjustment, but I managed to get 2 A's and 2 B's, while working full time.
Over Christmas break I tried to pass a math placement test that would get me into the math 101 class, required for me to graduate this spring. Unfortunately, I kept coming up short, and after the 4th attempt I had to enroll in the prerequisite/ preparatory math class.
Since then, I've steadily been doing worse on quizzes and the midterm. I've gone to the accommodations department, and even with double the allotted test time, I still have issues completing them. I am mildly dyslexic, and have to check/recheck my work constantly to make sure I didn't miss a negative sign or an exponent. The questions I do answer, are usually correct, and I complete about 10 of the 12 questions. On days we have a quiz, I get up at 6:00 am, have a quick jog/shower, then review material from around 6:30 until I leave at 9:30. On the hour drive to the campus, I watch YouTube videos on related material.
Now I'm running into an issue where I literally cannot remember how to even start solving the problems. I can't remember formulas or equations. I created a mnemonic device to help with my midterm to remember the formulas for volume/surface area of objects, and immediately wrote them on the scratch paper at the testing center. However, when I got past that section of the test, I could not remember anything else.
This week, I could not remember anything regarding quadratic equations, even though I'd spent all morning on it. I was only able to fumble my way through 1 of the 12 questions in 45 minutes. I felt myself starting to have a panic attack, so I turned my quiz in and sat in my car outside until I felt like I could drive home.
Does anyone know what is happening to me? It's like the more I study, the less I remember during the quiz. My quizzes have dropped from being in the 80's to the 50s, to almost zero. Despite me working part time now, and spending more time reading/watching YouTube video/completing assignments I'm having a harder time processing material and remembering information during the quiz. The assignments have between 50 and 100 questions, and take me about 3-5 hours to complete, so it's been my entire life for the past two months.
I'm at a complete loss for what I'm doing wrong, and how to move forward. I've spoken with my professor multiple times, and he's basically assured me that he knows I'm trying and that I'm going to pass. My concern is that I'm going to get to the advanced math class and have the same issue. I don't have this problem in any other classes, and I have never had any issues with tests/testing. This is the first time I've ever needed to use the accommodations office.
Any advice would be appreciated, thank you
u/THExWHITExDEVILx — 3 months ago