I just applied for a job and got it. Come to find out, it will entail an 18% pay cut. Despite this, I am still taking the job. This is because it is more convenient for me and gives me value in other ways besides pay.
Quantitative (Keynesian) economics would not have concluded that I would turn down the job. The school operates without considering human action.
Human action is everything.
When I was 12 I buried a time capsule with a friend of mine. It is interesting that among many things, I chose to include a $1 dollar bill and some change.
Someone may find it in the future and think 'damn, people really used this?'
December, 2022 Poem-
Tonight I start with no purpose
No goal in mind
rather a feeling to be left behind
There is no solution
As if my mind has been smitten
a cloudy wave of pollution
This seems now to be common
Once, twice,
sometimes thrice per day I become this way
It comes out the blue
from nowhere
from anywhere
but without a clue
it's my mind
that creates the storm
showering silent bullets of pain
I can train my mind to not care
that's not really me
I can stay in this state of despair
that wouldn't be fair
so I walk this thin line
between Love and Love
Beware of a deflationary period on the horizon.
Recently my wages were increased by a dollar. Come to find out that my employer took away paid lunch period. Now I earn less money/week. It was sneaky, yes, but I am sticking with the job, for those who have too much pride over wage cuts will be the same people trapped in the rampant competition for available jobs at lower wages than before.