An Economist Friend of mine once said...

[Waterguy]

Life is free,
but not so for a good life,
for that, it all depends on more than sheer luck.

Well, that's sort of correct statistically,
but some folks are born lucky, I just always thought.
I just happen to know of plenty of examples,
I told him.

Well, there are definite degrees, or a certain gradient of luck we all recognize to be sure,
he said.

You see, anyone can be born, and throughout history, you could be born into deep poverty
and hostile conditions with no hope of ever escaping such a condition, and through no fault of your own.

And so that's how I got interested in the field of Economics, and for me it was because not only the
search behind our true collective history as human beings, but also, trying to understand what can be learned,
and then possibly be done, just to make life better for more people.

Being an Economist, is full of math, but also logic, basically it's the field of logic trying to weigh in all the
tangible resources, along with the improvement of efficiency which calls for more human productivity.

Money systems, are illusionary. What really matters in the end of the day is efficiency, which calls for more
productivity - doing more with less effort.

The Greeks said this, if we didn't need slaves, why would we make people slaves,

Plato said, why would we make slaves, and then create a fake origin story just to justify our own moral
deficiencies?

Aristotle agreed, and he left the academy of Plato upon Plato's death.

There never was something so crystaline clear as the truth apparent.

So that's why it's tough being an Economist, most of us started off studying mathematics, astrophysics,

And
Axiology
Metaphysics
Epistemology
Aesthetics, logics and such.

You find yourself looking at the shitty things that have been tried,

that made no sense, and comparing it to gains for all of humankind,

kind of like this scale of justice we have at any given time,
And then, you do the math,

and in some ways it's a far better future, and in others, if we don't change,
far worse.

Everyone is an economist in some sense. Literally, if you will, born with only one life.

Peace!

[Walleye]

1. We truly are created equal and that we only have one life to live

Was it Will Rogers who said something like, “it’s a free country, but you can’t live here for nothing”