3. Making Sense Of It

The fact revealed to me by studying the replication of DNA was that all life on earth is there only for one purpose, reproduce and we certainly are no bit different, yes we certainly aren’t any different from the chimpanzees or even plants for that matter except for the level of ‘sophistication’ of process of Natural Selection which we have developed given our intelligent understanding of everything we come across into an Economic Selection in the Free Enterprise system I mentioned earlier.

    The Capitalist/ Market/ Free enterprise system is an awesome analogue to Natural Selection even though it is synergic as we all work with and for each other and being ‘selfish’ at the same time. Producers need to convince consumers that their product is very much needed by them so as to extract maximum price out of it. The laws of supply-demand kicks in and you know the rest is economics.

     The money an individual earns is proportional to the utility he is giving the world or simply what value his work is to us.A laborer works for a full day and does not even earn 100 bucks for that because there are many who are willing to work for the same amount. Whereas Larry Page & Sergey Brin have written Google’s Page Rank Algorithm with about 5 million lines of code which has made internet search so efficient, probably nobody has been able to write a better algorithm and hence the remuneration is proportional to the value of work they do. The person with more wealth is selected for (lives a luxurious life ) and the one with less wealth is selected against (poor one suffers). This motivates people to start working hard and produce more valued goods 'n' services, better research 'n' development of technologies for which world has more need or utility or value

Now I can answer many of the questions in the first post:

Q1. What is our significance in a universe that is 14 billion light years in radius (assuming spherical 3D model for simplification)?

A1. Nothing, seriously nothing.

Q2. What is the purpose of my life? Why am I supposed to do things that I’m doing right now? Why do I need to study things which probably I will never see or experience in my life?

A2. Since we are living beings, we must do what all living beings do –live healthy- reproduce-die. However to increase the probability that we live healthy, comfortably and so does our off springs, we must earn as much wealth as we can. To do so we must learn ways to provide maximum utility we can to other fellow beings. Hence by studying various sciences / engineering / commerce we increase the value of the work that we do.