Canadian Politics Today

I really like the way you presented it because it has so much meaning in my life. 

I'm really glad you like it.

People assume that I must be good at math, or I must like it, to go into accounting, but truthfully, I don't like math at all even though I love numbers.  I just like keeping track of anything that can be measured, even in my personal life.

In Sumeria, you would have been a scribe.  This was a skill that rose in importance as the new visual/spatial written culture emerged.  I am like you in this regard.  I don't know what we would have done in hunter/gatherer or agricultural societies.  I suspect our skills wouldn't have been as applicable.

On the other hand, my dad, a retired chartered accountant, went into accounting as a means to earn a living but he loves math and was also a math professor.  Even now that he's losing a lot of his cognitive abilities to dementia, he is a walking calculator and can do complex math problems in his head. 

The two are very different and don't always go hand in hand even though many people make the assumption that they do.

I went to school for Mathematics.

The mathematicians were, like me, a type: the classic 'nerd' type.  These are my people.  But the most brilliant mathematicians were not like that.  Some were like artists, some were beautiful women who could have been models, some were athletes.  They would blend in with a room of people and not appear as nerds.


My journey included getting a math degree, going into computer programming and then management.

Along the way I went to acting school and earned a diploma in that.  I draw from my math and computer background as well as my acting in management.  People think of acting as performing, but that is only half of it.  The other half of acting is listening and being aware of your scene mates.  That's the chief aspect of acting that I use in management.

But I digress.  I'm not sure what you mean in that second paragraph, money will always remain concrete.  It may become digital and end up in a virtual database instead of in someone's pocket or under their mattress, but it's still tangible and always will be.

You have made a mistake.  'Tangible' by definition means you can touch it and you can't touch digital money.  The first money, written on stone tablets, was visual only.  Coinage gave you money you could feel in your hand.  Central banking started during the Renaissance I understand, and that was the first virtual money.  I can touch my computer screen but $0 feels the same as $1.

What do you mean exactly, you think money will transcend the accounting level and go into a mathematics level of understanding?

I'm not sure which statement of mine you refer to, but money like all technology will change.  It will become virtual, that's not hard to see, but I can see it disappearing in the long term as the goods that we all need to live will become more easy to come by.