Lamentations

I am at the cusp of graduation. I have to take 3 more classes in my major before I will officially hold now and forever a major in finance at the University of Kentucky. And at the moment I think I can say that one of my biggest regrets in life will have been to study finance here. I could have developed a greater understanding of chemistry, or biology. I could have pursued English or geography. But I chose to have a practical major. One that I could easily apply in the real world. But what have I learned? I have learned that I absolutely despise the business world. I cannot stand finance because as far as I am concerned it is a major representative of everything I find wrong in society.
The other day I was a bumper sticker that said, “Never have so few taken so much from so many for so long”. Now while I believe that it is the fundamental nature of man to screw other men over and take more then necessarily for oneself. So thus I don’t completely agree with that bumper sticker, I do on a very visceral and powerful level sympathize with it. And the field of finance, the concepts that is runs and is founded upon run on this basic aspect of human nature. If we were to simply evolve and take care of each other tomorrow, if we got rid of greed…my field of study would mean nothing, my major would have no application in reality.