Question Three

The subject is currently upstairs screaming at the top of her lungs. The subject appears to wildly vacillate between peaceful sleep and ear piercing screams. I've begun to wonder if the subject is experiencing intense nightmares that are waking her up. That would explain the inability of the subject to calm down when arising from sleep. The subject has also taken to waking up several times during the night to howl. We are not sure if she is attempting to turn into a werewolf or whether the screaming is because of the nightmares or some other unknown phenomenon.

The subject has lately begun smiling quite intently at sights that most people would regard as troublesome. Last night I held the subject at close range while S cried in the bathroom. Upon seeing S crying the subject broke into a large grin. The subject has been known to grin as well when either of the researchers is accidentally smacked in the face with one of her hands and recoils. We are not sure whether the subject doesn't understand social mores or whether she's a sociopath. Results are pending.

Question 3 from the All Souls challenge (As always, other responses are highly encouraged though not often received).

Are there too many accountants and auditors?

I'm entirely ill-equipped to answer this question. I'm also not sure how the answer to this question should relate to whether a person gets a fellowship for seven years or not. I mean, the question is legit, but this seems a bit farcical. And, as we all know, humor has no business lying in bed with intelligence.

Tangentially related fact:

Date on which student loans first passed credit cards among the largest sources of private debt in the United States: 6/30/10

I'm going to attack the question from the back end and say that it's related to our current financial system. Aside: I heard this fascinating story about a tribe that used giant limestone boulders as currency. And the boulders would remain in the same place for years but have belonged to several people during that time period. The most interesting of which was a large piece of limestone that some guys claimed to have found but lost at sea. These guys were credited with actually having the limestone. Ie, money in stocks.

I think the number of accountants and auditors is related to the extreme value that we place in developed nations on having money. It is necessary for our financial system to have a hell of a lot people running constant checks on it. Thus, the critique should really be attacking a society that is based almost entirely on material wealth while displaying scant attention to the paucity of emotional/familial/communal wealth. Ie, we have too many accountants because we care too much about money. However, that puts people in a bind as being the first person to not care about money doesn't exactly set you up to succeed. It also makes you a dirty hippie. Truthfully just reading the explanatory web page on accountants makes me incredibly sleepy. Go ahead, give it a tryWhat I'm getting at is that I'm less concerned about the number of accountants and more concerned about the love of money, which seems to be intimately tied to the accountants.


The simpler answer could be yes. People need to figure out how to do their own taxes/retirement funds.