Why should we study?

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I’ve remembered something that some naughty students once told me: “Why should we study, if we’ll probably end up working in a MacDonald's?” So I guess the most logical thing to do is not to study and to end up living under a bridge…

But you see, they’re nihilistic!

I’d like to tell them something. “Do you know what entropy is? It is a physics principle according to which all systems tend to reach a state of chaos and disorder. I’d connect that with our lives. Our life only gets more and more difficult. We’ll find more and more obstacles. Today you may be acceptably comfortable, but tough times will come and until them we might have added some order or even more chaos. That will determine the possible results: a quite satisfactory life or a terrible ordeal. Of course there may be circumstances that alter the estimated outcome, but I cannot take them all into account, and we all know that ‘good / bad luck’ are always present.”