It's fun to see that most of the people here know only about the book because it appears in the Matrix (myself included). Whenever I read philosophers like Bau

It's fun to see that most of the people here know only about the book because it appears in the Matrix (myself included). Whenever I read philosophers like Baudrillard or that share similar ideas, I can't help it but to see their thesis for very complex, very elaborate and very ornate systems of epicycles around the concept of value. A lot of them don't even acknowledge the assumption that there's intrinsic value, and just run with it, with expected results. From Marxism multipliers of labor to simulacra, to me it just sounds like constructions to avoid the idea of value being an emergent property.