Wednesday, April 7, 2010

"Faustian Economics"

As a college student who just signed over any paycheck i might be getting for about the next 30 years, i constantly am thinking about how much waste people make, and the amounts of excess people seem to hoard. it shocks me that some people can spend the amount of money it could cost to pay for my four plus years of school on a single car..and why? because they can "sing". this part is just annoying, but not the real serious problem. how about driving those 10 cars down the block, where it is impossible to walk apparently. and i'm not just complaining for my sake. there are people who are far worse off with bigger problems than a couple of student loans. we just keep taking and taking, even though we know about those little annoying crazy people telling us to go green. but no one seems to care. i mean, they are more concerned about how much it is going to cost them in fuel prices, rather than thinking about whether the fuel almost all gone. i know i am in constant debate of whether or not i should bother driving back for my afternoon class, not just because it is calculus, but because i don't want to end up stranded on the southern state, after ignoring that dumb blinking light telling me i should have gone to the gas station 3 days ago. that's really the only time i think about how much fuel we waste, driving back and forth to school. i guess it's this mentality that we all have, that forces us to think about this waste. we all know in the back of our minds that someday everything is going to run out, and i suppose that we are all just trying to grab as much as we can before it does.

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