I was given an assignment . Write a profile of the economist. I didn’t know anything about the economist. He had done something related to systems. How do we understand systems? What is a system? Is a system something that can control your life, or is it better if you devote your life to trying to control the system? These were the questions the economist seemed to be posing. I tried hard to research the economist, a task I kept failing at. I didn’t like the man. He was ugly. I don’t mean that he was physically ugly. I mean to say that when I thought about him, I thought: ugly. Objectively, however, he was quite good looking. I was jealous of how thin he was. He rode a bike everywhere. He studied “happiness outcomes” and concluded that riding a bike improved them. I could not consider him a snob. The world is ugly. The world is ugly, and this man makes the world uglier by pretending he is trying to understand something unseen about productivity and happiness and systems. I hated the assignment.…