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RE: What IS This Thing we Call "Value?"
Deconstruction the concept goes some way to clarify things (imo).
We are animals that need calories to live. It's not a choice.
Ergo, things that offer a calorific intake to us, have an intrinsic value.
(You can't eat a car ..)
If we see 'value' based on actual real life sustaining, items - and then work from there.
We can see how the concept of value has been made so complex, and totally and utterly corrupted - so much so, that now , we can't easily see what value is.
The funny thing is, the intrinsic value of a sheep - hasn't changed much from what it was 50,000 years ago.
Some thoughts
I don't think it's "made" so complex, it has become that way by spontaneous human interaction. (maybe no one is to blame ;)
For instance I value a heater in the house, over a open fire (inhaling smoke,black inside of the house, danger of something catching fire, not having to tend the fire all the time etc.etc.)
I also think that I am the only one who can decide what is of value for me and you for you. And very much happens unconsciously, in the way that if i buy a heater I do not think all those things I mentioned above, I do not even know.
The value of a sheep depends on who you ask, if you ask a kebab seller he would have a whole different perspective on it than a vegan, and someone who bought the kebab to eat it has a whole different perspective on it that the kebab seller (who does not eat it all) Someone who sell's wool, looks at a sheep differently than a butcher
This all happens within "spontaneous order" or "spontaneous chaos" or both, depends on who you ask.
There have been individuals in the past, (and maybe now) that valued their idiotic dream of an agrarian society (or whatever) far more than he valued millions of peoples lives or what was of value to those people. Pol Pot
It is not a good thing ....I think.....to force someone to value (or not value) what one self values.
But that is what I value ;)
You can't force anyone to place value , and yeah, no one made it happen - it just happened.