Lawyers tend to be well-paid, and I¡¯d argue we¡¯re also slightly odd because we devote an abnormal proportion of our finite lives to reading ¡ª even writing ¡ª boring text that no sane person would bother with. Ever read a mutual fund prospectus? Well of course not ¡ª what sort of lunatic does that?
As someone who has written mutual fund prospectuses, I hope you can appreciate the sacrifices that have gone into this month¡¯s column as it involved hours spent poring over something even more soul-destroying: Ministry of Education elementary and middle school textbooks on »å¨³Ù´Ç°ì³Ü or ¡°public morals.¡± Here is what I learned:
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