Recent studies done by the Haras School of Economics have shown that the deadweight loss of studying could be more than the Gross Domestic Product of entire third-world countries. This ground-breaking revelation has sparked much debate within the education ranks of Timbaktu, as some education officers now feel that if studying were to be abolished, the deadweight loss, some three times the national GDP of this under-developed nation, could be converted into real GDP, hence raising the standard of living.

How could there be any loss to studying?, one might wonder. But ask yourselves this: How many times do you click on Facebook a day? And out of those times, how many times do you do so because you have a specific purpose in mind? And when you finally close the window, what have you gained in return for the 30 minutes just dedicated to poking and throwing sheep at people? Finally, when is it that you find yourself automatically opening up the Facebook homepage and surfing aimlessly? Not when you're about to have dinner, not when you're about to leave the house, not when you're about to go to bed, but always, when you're about to sit down and study. Instantly, the computer is switched on, and the familiar homepage pops up even before your textbooks and stationery are set out on the table. In light of this startling discovery, the research department at HSE have been commissioned to investigate into possible relationships between the neurons in the brain responsible for a person's studying ability, and the neurons that puts your finger in spasms, flipping the computer's switch on and typing http://www.facebook.com/ into the address bar.

Furthermore, it has also been observed that people tend to take superfluous toilet breaks while studying. As frequent as once every five minutes, study-ers are compelled to put down their pen, go to the toilet, and pee three drops of liquid before being able to return to their books. Medical studies have shown that there is negligible difference between peeing 100 times, 2millilitres at a time, and peeing 200ml all at once. Hence, from an economical point of view, studying can be considered to not be socially optimal, as it causes members of the society to pee in an inefficient manner, wasting time, which is a limited resource.

Another phenomena, now known as the OYF (say oif), causes someone who is hard at work to constantly take short breaks that involve walking to the kitchen, opening the fridge door, staring dumbly at the contents of the fridge, before closing the door and walking back upstairs to their study room. This baffling behavior has stumped the greatest psychologists, and we can only conclude that it is studying that triggers off this strange habit.

In a nutshell, this economist firmly believes that studying is detrimental for the individual, as well as society at large, and sincerely hopes that it will be abolished as soon as possible.