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i don't understand any of this shit. i've done the economics a-level and i read the papers etc, but it's just all so abstract. i wonder if anyone truly has a handle on it. i feel so far removed from it all, especially being a student (I have this week moved home to my parents house to save money :( ). I know the so-called 'credit crunch' (how i hate that expression) has real consequences for ordinary people, but i can't help but feel it's just so abstract. money in general is a system developed by people and has no place in nature. i just feel like it's all bollocks. whilst all this politicised economic shite swirls around above all of our heads, we'll only really comprehend it the day we fail to make a payment or whatever.
That David Mitchell bloke off the telly made some flippant remark about it a few weeks ago and it really stuck with me "It's just a lot of arsehole city bankers make stupid bets with numbers on screens. None of it is real, it's not going to cause a house to burn down because none of it really exists" (or words to that effect).
I supposed I just like things to be real, hence why i like riding. just thought i'd put that out there.