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Economic value is whatever people want.
by hyko 14y ago
Economic 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.