i feel like such a grown up. i just put money away in a retirement plan (the deadline is, apparently, tomorrow way to go jacinthe!) i'm not the smartest one when it comes to investing, which of course means i keep everything in a checking account... with the obvious consequence of upseting dad-the-retired-accountant.

so, anyways, it turns out i just had to fill out an online form, not much more complicated that posting on blogger and that was that. who knew being a grown up could be so easy?

of course, i don't know anything aside from that online form. i'm not sure where the money ends up, what the interest rate is and when i can eventually claim it, but whatever. it makes dad happy and it makes me feel like i've done something socially acceptable.

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i remember having this interesting discussion about social reproduction, pertaining mostly to how people are taught or not to invest money. access to simple sources of information about how to make your capital grow are scarce and the banking-lingo is inaccessible to the less educated.

quite frankly, had it not been for the advice my dad gave me over the phone earlier (after my frantic phone call) i would probably have shrugged it off and just abandoned the idea of trying to make more from less. i'm sure a lot of people do the same. you see, i'm lucky enough not to have to be smart or even care about this. i can just phone someone up who will tell me what to do and i don't have to worry about whether that person has vested interests in the questions.

gosh, i never thought i would write a capitalist rant but, hey, there is a first to everything.