>No, no, no, no! There's no problem here. I was just hoping you might give me some insight into the evolution of the market economy in the southern colonies. My contention is that prior to the Revolutionary War, the economic modalities, especially in the southern colonies, could be most aptly described as agrarian pre-capitalist.
How do you even respond to that?
That's the gayest shit I've ever heard, I just want some pussy dude.
>gets a degree to talk about shit from the past
god damn did will win
Never seen this gif Kek
Its from Jay and Silent bob strike back
Only good part of the movie.
ohh I dont like the sound of them apples, Will!
Shut up Cyril or I'll take your puppet away. Now, if you'll excuse me I'm gonna suck on them apples while she sits on my meat if you catch my drift.
Of course that's your contention. You're a first year grad student. You just got finished readin' some Marxian historian -- Pete Garrison probably. You're gonna be convinced of that 'til next month when you get to James Lemon, and then you're gonna be talkin' about how the economies of Virginia and Pennsylvania were entrepreneurial and capitalist way back in 1740. That's gonna last until next year -- you're gonna be in here regurgitating Gordon Wood, talkin' about, you know, the Pre-revolutionary utopia and the capital-forming effects of military mobilization.
Well, as a matter of fact, I won't, because Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth
Wood 'drastically underestimates the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth.' You got that from Vickers, 'Work in Essex County,' page 98, right? Yeah, I read that too. Were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us? Do you have any thoughts of your own on this matter? Or do you...is that your thing? You come into a bar. You read some obscure passage and then pretend...you pawn it off as your own idea just to impress some girls and embarrass my friend? See the sad thing about a guy like you is in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you're gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life. One: don't do that. And two: You dropped a hundred and fifty grand on a f----n' education you coulda' got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library.
As nice as it was to see him tell off that smug cunt everyone knows you don’t go to Harvard to “learn” you go to Harvard for connections
i didn't know that then. most people didn't. we actually believed it was about what you know, not who you know. because that's what they told us and we believed them.
Oh my sweet summer child.
Are you kidding it’s been that way in the Ivy League for 50 years
Harvard, Princeton, Columbia they don’t teach you anything special and never have. It’s just that you are surrounded by the elite and their children me ain’t it helps you get into the elite class.
Yeah, but I will have a degree. And you'll be servin' my kids fries at a drive-thru on our way to a skiing trip.
Hasn’t aged well tbh, Aflack and Damon with specialty contractors certifications probably make more than some dork with a history degree in 2023
Afflack's character, maybe, becomes a skilled tradesman. Damn's character was always that guy who was so much smarter than everyone else and didn't need to learn to be a welder or electrician or go through the licensing process and then one day he was going to be fifty and have an epiphany that it is really too late for him to do much more than sniff his own superduper smart farts. Meanwhile, Afflack's character gets married, eventually stops hanging out with Damon's and Minie Driver's character gets tired of his "I feel bad for myself deep down" schtick.
Everyone has seen a plumber/electrician/welder/contractor who is exactly like Affleck's character. Looks, background, personality, etc.
Especially if you are around New England.
Yeah, but I will have a degree. And you'll be in here quoting Howard Zinn, talking about, you know, the original sin of American emperialism.
I'm trying to have a beer right now you insecure fag.
Shut the fuck up you nerd
I have read more history since leaving college than these writers could ever hope to read. It was cringe as fuck I’d tel that ponytailed faggut to suck my asshole
My area of interest is in Medieval England, so I really can't speak intelligently about that, but feel free to clean my shit off the bathroom stall walls when you're at work tomorrow.
>overly complicated way to say the southern colonies ere agrarian
Ivy League education in a nutshell
Also he gives no argument as to why that's his position, he just says it is. It's like
>southern colonies era agrarian
>okay, why do you say that? what exactly made it agrarian?
>because it just is, okay
'Cuz Gordon Wood said so, pal!
But what about Vickers?
Didn't you go bar hopping quoting random authors and belittling people with no education and probably stronger than you?
Yeah but I quote Aquinas, Gibbon and Schopenhauer.
Girls cream and working class bros seethe
That's kinda cringe
>"100 grand to learn the southern colonies grew cotton?"
>excuse me mister I was wondering what your opinions of apples was
>because i obtained a girls phone number
Did I miss a scene here? Why did Will randomly switch topics?
Since he never go to college he never learned the basics of academic methodology
I may work as a literal jannie and you may be a rich chad but at least I’m not unoriginal pal