I have the opposite experience. Goes to show the difference between people.
I've always had trouble internalizing the "physics" of physics or chemistry, as if it were all super arbitrary and there was no order to it.
Computation and maths on the other hand just click with me. Philosophy as well btw.
I guess I deal better with handling completely abstract information and processes and when they clash with the real world I have a harder time reconciling.
But if the alternative becomes more real estate investment than we already have won't that be even worse?
Investing in the stock market at least in principle is investing in businesses that use that money to increase productivity. We should discourage investment in vehicles that do not optimize for productivity (real estate, bitcoin, metals and similar).
Most local produce initatives fail because they're not actually better than the global/international variants, especially considered from a price/quality pov.
Honestly, I am amazed that there are people that don't do this.
I am often wondering how different the world looks through the eyes of someone else, and it's very hard for me to imagine how people can "go through the motions" without understanding in situations like you described.
Personally, I could never remember a fact or a word without understanding the concept behind it or its significance.