Born here, lived in the same eastern Ky small town until college came along. Only just recently, I've ran into several Kentuckians in BM. What College if you don't mind my asking?
LGM, you, me, and Perth should nerd out together sometime. Perth got involved in BM after I recruited him a few years back.
I'm 19, from a small town in central Kentucky, now studying Economics at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, with an emphasis on international trade and finance. And yes, I recognize the irony of a Kentuckian attending university less than an hour from his home studying international trade in a state deep in the heart of the US.
I got into BM because I've done table top RPGs since I was a kid, and my whole family is packed with historians (dad- ancient linguistics, sister- art history/french lit, brother- anglo-saxon england), so it was an easy fit. BM is also very interesting from an economic perspective. The simplified commodity model, sticky transactions, large time delays, and regularized production make interesting modeling tools for economic systems. I keep trying to convince one of my profs to let me write one of my papers on BM economics, but he told me there is insufficient data reporting to make the experiment properly rigorous.
