I'm sure everyone has those things that they will never quite comprehend. These are the things that make my head hurt each time I try to contemplate them. I'm sure there are loads more but these are the ones that I've run into just this week...
1. 3D printing: While very cool, the complexities are way over my head. How do you scan something? How do you "fill" it with "ink"? Why would one need to 3D print something? Then it gets even crazier and more confusing when they start discussing cell printing to print organs...
2. Stocks: I've never been able to comprehend the stock market or stocks, or what a stock broker even does besides drink lots of coffee and scream on the phone a lot (that is if bad 90s movies are to be believed). I've tried. I've googled and listened but have never quite understood how people make ore lose money on them and what makes the Nasdaq and those other crazy stock-ish things go up and down each day.
3. Flight tables: How is a flight leaving from Baltimore, flying to London with a layover in Houston, economical? Also, how is a flight with 3 stops more expensive than a straight one?
4. How is Great Britain, so much better with keeping a lid on things than we are? It seems the Brits are much better at keeping low profiles. I read a casting notice on a new show just this week. It was due to start filming that day and they were just announcing the big stars. If that was here, I'm sure we would have heard about it months and months ago. This goes for salaries as well. Here we all seem to know how much each person makes for starring in a movie or running the country. But I haven't the foggiest how much their politicians and actors make which just seems much more seemly somehow.
5. How are teachers, servicemen and women, and charity workers paid significantly less than those that can throw a football or hit a baseball?
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