I'm having trouble saying what I mean May 17, 2007
Posted by Sina in : Daily , trackbackSina: Hola
Cass: So you started summer school today?
Sina: Yup. Taking my first finance course ever.
Cass: How do you like it?
Sina: It’s weird.
Cass: Why?
Sina: I dunno…
[pause]
Sina:
It’s like…… In economics, there’s a reason we learn and research economics. There’s a higher good in it because we’re always concerned with improvement and equality [improving things] so that everyone can enjoy having food, clothing, shelter, etc. That’s the higher good in it, so that people can live having a better quality of life.
In math, there’s a higher truth in it. It’s ancient, it has an element purity in it. It contains the fundamentals of knowledge, a higher truth.
But in finance, there’s no higher good, no higher truth. There’s nothing. All you’re doing is learning how to make money. Not for the better of anyone, or anything, only for yourself. There’s no joy in it. It’s empty. Void. And everyone knows it. Nobody even tries to rationalize it, no explanation is required. Sigh. I dunno….
[pause]
Cass: You had me at ‘hello’.
Sina: You mean ‘hola’.
Cass: Yeah. You had me.
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