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Wealth of Nation Note (Ch.4)

  Barter - Metal - Coins - Money Without the power to exchange, a specialized market could never exist. Since people will not be able to exchange their surplus production into something that they need. Barter Smith started this chapter with the Barter system, where the ancient civilization used a variety of different items to exchange such as oxen in Ancient Greece. However, their system does have tons of disadvantages: People have different needs for items, because of that trade might not take place, even though they both have surplus. It is also hard to exchange the exact value as some items are not divisible and on top of that some items might be hard to carry around too.  Thus for something to serve as a good exchange medium, it needs to satisfy 3 categories: Universally wanted. Divisible. Easy to carry. Metal Slowly most civilizations started using metal as the medium of exchange. Since it is “universally wanted” (because of what it represents exchange value now.) Beside...

What are we?

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What had created us? What if we were created by an event that will always happen. For example, the big bang began without anything, should it always have the same consequence, since what science is trying to find is the consequence of an event. For example, a ball falls, because gravity exists. Now the question comes to us humans. Do we do something because of all the past experiences and genes inside our body that influence us or are we able to change?




Image result for 命运Now let’s imagine a big bang is constantly happening, something that expands and contracts (which is the most probable ending of the universe.) Will we be able to change the action that we are doing or are we doomed to do the same thing again and again like a machine. I think that is the question that had bothered philosophers for all these years. The argument of machine vs soul. Do we exist just to repeat the same thing again and again, or are we able to change or improve our situation each time it happens (like having a soul guiding us, since we are not doing the same thing again and again, but change our behavior because we got the memory from the previous experience.)


Image result for treadmill artThe ability to change is yours to control, you can follow the influence of your emotion and your genes, or you can try to change. As of now you still have the ability to change. Even if that's what you had done before, wouldn't you be glad that at least you tried? Just like me questioning my existence now, and hoping to give an answer. I might have posted this a thousand times yet I still feel that there's a lot that I can improve. I am glad to know that there are still improvements for me.











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