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Maybe it is not supposed to be quantified. At least not in a monetary value. This requirement that everything must have some currency value attached to it is a

Maybe it is not supposed to be quantified. At least not in a monetary value. This requirement that everything must have some currency value attached to it is a societal disease. We can extrapolate this to say that anything that increases the country GDP should be done. I can think of many awful examples. Maybe it makes more monetary sense to uproot every last tree to extract lumber. Maybe it makes more monetary sense to just kill people with serious illnesses or disabilities instead of building more hospitals. Maybe it makes more monetary sense to just put every damn child to work in the mines or in an Amazon fulfillment center instead of sending them to school. I can go on. As long as we can only measure the value of anything in USD, we can justify quite a lot of things that would be pretty awful for society as a whole.

robertlagrant 2y ago
> This requirement that everything must have some currency value attached to it is a societal disease No it's not - I'm saying currency is how we measure the relative value of things. Money isn't separate to how we measure something's value; it's the thing we use to measure value. It's like saying "every object having a length value attached is a societal disease; we shouln't only attach a cm value to all objects".
- kelnos 2y ago
  > It's like saying "every object having a length value attached is a societal disease; we shouln't only attach a cm value to all objects". That's not what the GP said, though. They said that the idea that everything needs to be valued in dollars is a societal disease. Not that everything that can be valued in dollars is a societal disease.