Well, Jade is assuming Ashley intends to learn math in the end, but if learning math ruins your profits then what is the point of it?
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Ashley Appletree
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Well, Jade is assuming Ashley intends to learn math in the end, but if learning math ruins your profits then what is the point of it?
It’s more, that you’d be ruining your profits either way, but maths makes you aware of that fact.
(Of course, my reason for liking maths is because it gives us ways of working out how to build bridges or get to the moon, without doing everything by trial and error and mountains of corpses. Because eventually you run out of people willing to join the mountain.)
Well, since she didn’t pay for the math book herself but intends to sell it, clearly that would turn a profit. It’s the same business model she uses on her lemonade stand.
I only have her hate math because I wanted her to be bad at something in school and reading/writing seemed odd with her dad being a writer and her mom working at a bookstore. 😉
Having been a kid who liked math in school, I personally find this trope to be annoying, but it’s your call.
If I ever get around to writing a comic about people in school, the subject to hate will be social studies.
I can see that, but I wanted her to have at least one issue in school since she’s otherwise all around overconfident. With her dad being a writer and her mom working in a book store it didn’t seem plausible to pick reading/writing since she’d probably get a headstart there.
So I ended up with the same old math. There just didn’t seem much else to pick from in first grade to me.
That’s fair. Keep up the good work.