A Wizard’s Scroll

"Misfits have always gotten the short end of the stick, even if their idea was revolutionary. You see, they’re familiar with getting so caught up in their ideas that collecting a paycheck comes second to turning those ideas into reality. They are the type of people that would rather work towards getting an energy-independent washing machine in every home on the planet than care enough to learn how to make a profit from it. But I digress, since we all know that an idea can't change the world, only money can."

These were the words he despised most. Well, at least he was often asked to despise them. They were part of a dissertation he was giving on economics in the Western world, and how America and Europe have prepaid the way for the boom happening in the East. The dean was not pleased at the rabble rousing, as she called it, and had asked him many times not to provoke the thought that Western born Economics may not be the key to the world's survival. As Kurt Lynch continued to remember that day, almost four years ago, he slowly laid back in his seat, as much as one could 20,000 miles in the air, and chuckled so loud that the captain came on the speaker and called for order on board. 

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