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Nails have basic utility as they can be used to build homes, structures, bridges, etc. Now take working at a teenager magazine, something like Seventeen. Reall
by alttab 14y ago
Nails have basic utility as they can be used to build homes, structures, bridges, etc.
Now take working at a teenager magazine, something like Seventeen. Really, you are producing a level of writing and entertainment that 14-19yo girls will read, probably paid for by their parents. Most of it will probably be idle thoughts and advice borderlining on turning girls into sluts who buy too much make-up. Really, your job is to provide a way to hide advertisements.
Not very valuable if you take a step back and look at all of humanity.
- hyko 14y agoEconomic value is whatever people want.
- alttab 14y agoTrue. My point was that just because something has economic value in today's system, doesn't mean it has value objectively, if there is such a thing.
- marknutter 14y agoYou're being incredibly bias here. You see 17 Magazine and scoff and teenaged girls see whatever it is you like and scoff. We each find value in the things we find value in and it's not our place to judge other people's choices.
- hackinthebochs 14y agoThis is a cop-out. We all "value" trivial things, and in the end, one person's trivial interests aren't any better or worse than another's. But we absolutely can judge interests as being in the class of trivial or not. The usual stuff you find in 17 magazine is easily categorized as trivial. To argue against this based on a "relative" argument is copping out of making the obvious judgement.
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- josephcooney 14y agoI think you hit the nail on the head (to borrow a theme from further up the thread) - I don't think there is such a thing as objective value.