• stoy@lemmy.zip
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    11 months ago

    The Nobel peace prize is a joke…

    The others are still usually pretty cool…

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      11 months ago

      Economics is 50/50 too. It’s not in the OG set of prizes and the science is hit and miss as well.

      But yeah, physics, chemistry, medicine are all prizes that highlight game changing discoveries.

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        11 months ago

        Economics is just a shit prize, it devalues the rest of the prizes, and should never been allowed to be awarded among the others.

        The litterature prize started as a good idea, but these days it has lost a lot of presteige, just looks back at when Bob Dylan was forced to get the prize.

        He didn’t want the prize, but the organizers still awarded him the prize, looking like a weirdly obsessive fan club.

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        11 months ago

        There isn’t a Nobel prize for economics, at least not really. The swedish central bank made their own price, to be awarded by the Nobel foundation