A closer look
Humans lose roughly ninety percent of newly learned information within a matter of days unless they actively and aggressively review it, as demonstrated by the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve, which highlights the wildly depressing reality that almost everything you studied in high school and college evaporated from your brain immediately after the final exam; our memory actually functions less like a highly secure hard drive and much more like a leaky bucket that constantly purges anything it deems practically useless for survival, so unless you are actively using complex algebra to hunt wild game or secure a romantic partner, your neurons simply refuse to maintain the data, meaning your ridiculously expensive education was mostly just a temporary mental rental of historical facts you forgot
