Things you never understood...
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I never understood why picking up a bird that flew into a window felt so wonderful when it flew away. I never understood why I was ever supposed to accept things I could not change, or if I was just giving up. I never understood why God would want me to see something others could not see. I never understood why everyone expects one to be normal, when normal to them may be different? Why an occasional storm teaches me not to be angry. Why seeing someone die teaches me not to think poorly of someone, if I was thinking poorly about them. Putting everything together, I never understood what my purpose is after I fulfilled my purpose. What do I do now?
I think its about health and all that, and also it has to do with laziness or not laziness.
Economies are cultural/social systems of exchange and economics is the study of such things.
The value of something, i.e. its currency which is a word with original and related senses of flowing and circulating like water current, blood flow/circulation, electrical current, etc.,
is based on the relative effects of labor and the ideological absolutism of numeracy (that is to say that the relation between numerals is absolute and 10 dollars is always and absolutely worth double what a 5 dollar bill is). Physical currency is nothing more than legally sactioned I.O.U.s. The basis for legally sactioning it is due to a social need for reparative enforcement of trust and good faith that underlies its usage, i.e. if you were ever taken to court and found obligated to some debt that you decided wasn't "real" in some ideological fashion until you were forcibly made to participate under threat of punishment. An American court isn't going to force you to repay a debtor in unicorn horns, but American currency.
It is important to note here that legally sactioned doesn't force one to participate except in those instances where there is an established agreement that you have willingly entered into a debt agreement wherewith you agreed to the exchange of a legal tender for goods or services or other things particular to the circumstances, like usage of intellectual property rights. You agree to do so simply because legal tender is a liquid asset which means that it is highly transferable.
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I don't understand people who believe that they are "superior" to others.
I don't understand people who point out other's physical "flaws." For example: someone who has a mole on their face, KNOWS that they have a mole on their face. I don't get why some people have to point out things like that when it's so irrelevant.
I don't understand materialism. A $5000 handbag or a $5000 vacation? I'd choose the latter. Although, some individuals won't settle for anything less than both options.
I don't understand people who point out other's physical "flaws." For example: someone who has a mole on their face, KNOWS that they have a mole on their face. I don't get why some people have to point out things like that when it's so irrelevant.
I don't understand materialism. A $5000 handbag or a $5000 vacation? I'd choose the latter. Although, some individuals won't settle for anything less than both options.
You're so funny. At least you're supposed to peel kiwis. I don't eat peaches because I can't be bothered peeling them and I don't like how the fuzz on the skin feels when you bite into it.
Economists don't really understand economics either. They constantly contradict each other and make predictions that never come true. Here's an article that talks about how economists are almost always wrong.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/wrong-again_784910.html
That is true.
But you know, there is also the whole "health" concept, and people who have this fix in their mind consider being fat as a self-indulgence (which let's be honest, often it really is), as a inconsideration toward one's own body.
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Materialism is not the same with practical wisdom.
Many people think they aren't materialistic, when in reality they lack practical wisdom.
Don't worry, I have a college degree in Business and work in a field of government economics, and from what I've seen there I'm pretty sure that most of economists with PhD-s, politicians and state presidents don't really understand large-scale economics. My personal belief is that the whole concept of large-scale economics was created to confuse people and not to be understood by general population.
I mostly agree with that.
Not always lol... a lot of people/salesmen/companies will try to cheat you by convincing you that you are receiving something of equal or greater value by giving them something they want (which is money in most cases), when actually the product /service/whatever they're offering is not worth a quarter of money that you give them in return... On an individual scale it's called ripping someone off, on a larger scale it's called marketing.
Well trading/selling is usually centered around profit and/or utility.
If monetary value is equal and you don't consider utility then there's no point in trading. That'd be like me giving you a potato and you giving me an identical potato. We could just as easily not trade and save the effort - in fact, in a strictly literal sense, meeting and trading consumes energy so if we trade identical potatoes we actually both lose something in comparison to keeping our own potato.
Now on the other hand, if we say a potato and a bottle of water are monetarily equal, but I'm thirsty and you are hungry, your water is worth more to me than my potato and vice versa. In a case like that both can gain something from the trade.