it's no secret to my 5 loyal readers that this anchor is always broke, and will more than likely be that way in this life. it would seem like i slept during my economic classes, but i had an interesting conversation with my son today about economics that would make any professor proud. the conversation started out innocently enough with my son telling me that he wanted to be me. my first response to him was "WHY"???? his response was "so i can be "the anchor" and do whatever i want". so then i responded with "does this anchor do whatever he wants"? to my surprise his response was a resounding "YES". i had to start down the litmus list of reasons not to be this anchor. i told him "well to be me then you have to work and get paid for it". after u get paid u now have to pay the bills and give the money u just slaved over working your hands and feet to the bone over to everyone else. he didn't like this answer so he gave me his alternate version of himself as me, that being that he would not have to work cause he would already have all the money he needed. liking this version of myself, a version i have never experienced i asked him where the money came from. his response was "i just have it already cause someone else gave it to me". this response inspired me, but seeing an opportunity to lecture him on how the real world currently works i said "well to be at this point no one has given that amount of money, and since you want to be me you just going to have to work to earn money". this boy is always thinking a step ahead of me so he tells me "well the i'm going to work in a zoo". letting him know how excited i was for him to work in a zoo i told him "that's a great idea". he then made the mistake of telling me that "the zoo was going to be free for everyone". i had to sadly burst his bubble and remind him that the zoo has expenses that they have to pay for such as feeding the animals and to paying him for his work. i told him i know u like dancing for people (which was what he stated would be his occupation at the zoo), but "how then are they going to afford the music you are going to dance to"? my son shot back "we'll they have $10,000.00 already". after explaining to him that the "dollar amount was not enough to run a zoo as well as pay him for dancing" he gave me a number to which i can't remember the exact amount but it was around $500,760.75 or near it. i told him that i thought that was a great amount of money to start off with but the zoo would still need more to run and sustain itself. being fed up like most kids (and people in general) at the options given to me he decided it was better to just be a kid and not deal with all that now. i have to say that agree with him.
