Economics of Pain: Pain markets (part 1)

I guess the worst thing about pain, is that it makes us want to 'curse God and die'.

Nietsche, who famously said that 'God is dead', apparently suffered through long periods of illness and pain. Now I didn't know that, and people, especially christians, when talking about him, don't mention that part of it. But knowing his context, I can understand much better why he would think God was no longer there.

There's so much raw pain around. I think if we took all the pain there is, and put it in a unverse, there'd be a big bang, because the universe could not contain it.

I don't understand pain at all. So much of it seems so desperately pointless. When I see it in someone I love, or even in a stranger on a bus maybe, who does not consciously know she is in pain, I wish I could reach out and wipe it all away. Sometimes, I wish I could bear it instead, because it causes me more pain to see another person in pain.

Yet I am dead afraid of pain. I live with various categories of pain. There's the physical ones, migraine headaches, muscle dysfunction pains, aging pains, period pains, just dead tired body pain. The mental ones are the scariest, it is somewhat possible to grit my teeth, turn my attention away from the physical pain, until it finally goes away. But psychological pain engulfs you, and is the most dangerous type of pain, because there are no executive functions possible. The cat's away, and mice go completely berserk.

What do I do with all this pain? Can it be transformed into something? Courage seems the easiest to transform it into, but are there other forms pain can be converted into? Art?

Ok, but what I'd really like to do with pain, say pain was like money, the more pain you had, the more buying power you had. I'd like to, I guess buy other people's pain, or the potential for other people to be in pain, so that by what I buy, the less pain they have to experience.

I could have a ebay pain site. Everyone advertises their pain, and if I am a good stock analyst, I can determine by their type of character, the amount of pain they may be going to experience. So I'd go bidding then, for the riskiest characters, because the greater the risk, the higher the pain share value.

Ok, I've got pocketfuls of pain credit. Now you guys show me what you've got, and I'll buy it from you.

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