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Can you eat honor? Can you sell it? What is the worth of a man besides his ability to profit? Seeing endless people of honor scrape out meagre existences while

Can you eat honor? Can you sell it? What is the worth of a man besides his ability to profit? Seeing endless people of honor scrape out meagre existences while those who exploit others endlessly become billionaires is more enlightening to the worth of honor than our useless platitudes.

saagarjha 6y ago
I think the issue here is that you’ve tied a monetary value to honor, when honor is often tied to other things and occasionally explicitly the lack of a desire to maximize profit.
- freeone3000 6y ago
  It's not monetarily valued. It's not societally valued, in any tangible sense. Power is not allocated to whomever has the most honor. So what good is it?
  - dirtybird04 6y ago
    Some beliefs and values are personal, and thus, intangible. Try to recognize that not everything good in life has to be (or even can be) quantified.
  - throwanem 6y ago
    This implies that power is the only good, which is a hell of a way to look at the world.
  - piva00 6y ago
    Do you only care about things that bring power to you personally? Or do you care about intangible values that are important to you as a human? One defines character and personality, the other is just a way to achieve personal gains.
heartbeats 6y ago
Can you eat profit? What is the worth of a man besides his honor? What profiteth a man if he gaineth the whole world, but loseth his soul?
- Grimm1 6y ago
  Apparently Bill Gates has the ability to buy his back given his current PR and general perception at around 130BN so seems like it might not be a bad play. ;)
usgroup 6y ago
It’s a fair question. I’d say that if/after you’ve made your millions you may soon find that your life is no less empty, and that internal substance - however intangible - is all there is. The exogenous manifestations of it are honour, duty, morality and so on. I think the Stoic literature best explains it if ever you’re interested.
etripe 6y ago
Can you eat or sell happiness? What about contentment, satisfaction, meaning or purpose? I mean, no skin off my back if you want to frame yourself as a cog in the economic machine, but surely there's more to life than materialism? Am I perhaps misunderstanding your post and are you instead making a point about the disposable nature of men as a gender group?

saagarjha 6y ago

I think the issue here is that you’ve tied a monetary value to honor, when honor is often tied to other things and occasionally explicitly the lack of a desire to maximize profit.

freeone3000 6y ago
It's not monetarily valued. It's not societally valued, in any tangible sense. Power is not allocated to whomever has the most honor. So what good is it?
- dirtybird04 6y ago
  Some beliefs and values are personal, and thus, intangible. Try to recognize that not everything good in life has to be (or even can be) quantified.
- throwanem 6y ago
  This implies that power is the only good, which is a hell of a way to look at the world.
- piva00 6y ago
  Do you only care about things that bring power to you personally? Or do you care about intangible values that are important to you as a human? One defines character and personality, the other is just a way to achieve personal gains.

heartbeats 6y ago

Can you eat profit? What is the worth of a man besides his honor? What profiteth a man if he gaineth the whole world, but loseth his soul?

Grimm1 6y ago
Apparently Bill Gates has the ability to buy his back given his current PR and general perception at around 130BN so seems like it might not be a bad play. ;)

usgroup 6y ago

It’s a fair question. I’d say that if/after you’ve made your millions you may soon find that your life is no less empty, and that internal substance - however intangible - is all there is. The exogenous manifestations of it are honour, duty, morality and so on. I think the Stoic literature best explains it if ever you’re interested.

etripe 6y ago

Can you eat or sell happiness? What about contentment, satisfaction, meaning or purpose? I mean, no skin off my back if you want to frame yourself as a cog in the economic machine, but surely there's more to life than materialism? Am I perhaps misunderstanding your post and are you instead making a point about the disposable nature of men as a gender group?