I want to be an economist. Technically, I suppose I already am but not fully fledged. There is so much training and reading for me to do before I can call myself one.
Ever since high school, I’ve thought about economic theory… and even then, I was critical of the mainstream. My first economic philosophy involved a virtuous cycle of investments. Corporations make windfall profits, but then pump those profits into investments in education, health, and technology. Healthier and smarter workers are more productive. As technology improves, the demand for workers decreases… and in the most ideal state, everyone could enjoy a permanent state of leisure by sharing the means of production. It was an interesting mesh of socialist and capitalist philosophy. But after witnessing Enron, two unfunded wars involving war contractors (crony capitalism), Madoff, and an ever growing inequality between the Rich and the Rest, I grew bored and tired of capitalism. Post-recession, I now have a hatred for it.
I will make it my life’s work to develop theory that will dismantle capitalism once and for all.
