Wednesday, April 09, 2008
We live in a cruel world. How do I know that? Because I have my finance lecturer telling me Australia is the land for gambling and dying, if you want to avoid tax. And teaching us ways to avoid tax. Such a fine line, avoid tax and evade tax. Do we really want to tread that line?
I was walking through campus today, and I saw yet another graduation. Commerce students this time, all smiling and taking photos. And I couldn't help but realize the sad and painful fact that in less than 2 years it will be my turn, and I'll enter the world of slogging to earn those miserable dollars. How happy can you really be as a commerce student? Understanding the finance world, why markets crash, why prices rise, why government policies fail, why nations enter times of recessions, inflation. Sometimes ignorance is really bliss. Knowledge is such a curse. We want to learn, we want to experience, but after we go through our years we look back and we envy the baby in the hospital, the toddler in the kindergarden, who do not have any worries. "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own" Matt 6:34
I'm just rambling because study has been unproductive. I know I've blogged about this before, but I hate the law of diminishing marginal returns, because that means the longer I study, less increment I get in my understanding of my work, and there will eventually come a point where too much study will result in me forgetting what I studied previously.
Dan
9:55 pm
