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"Preserving the irreplaceable value of ..." works great as a personal motivation or a mission statement, but terribly as an explicit rule. It's the same problem
by sdwr 2y ago
"Preserving the irreplaceable value of ..." works great as a personal motivation or a mission statement, but terribly as an explicit rule. It's the same problem as carbon offsets - if there's a formula for converting intangible values into cold hard cash, people will exploit the definition of the intangibles to make money.
- roughly 2y agoThis is largely because we’ve built a philosophy that eschews any concept of a collective or a people or a culture or a future.
- lobsterthief 2y agoNot every country is like this
- yyuugg 2y ago[dead]
- contravariant 2y agoPeople keep forgetting that money is just a set of rules we've created for ourselves and not a goal on its own.
- walterbell 2y agoWhich legal and financial instruments have defended the City of London itself from being auctioned for parts? Subsets of culture are preserved, packetized & traded daily. Even StubHub has a "food festival" category.
- metaphor 2y agoBefore learning that this[1] was a thing, I honestly would have interpreted your remark in passing as figurative rhetoric. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_(Lake_Havasu_City) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_(Lake_Havasu_Cit...
- mr_toad 2y ago> Which legal and financial instruments have defended the City of London itself from being auctioned for parts? Currently, the Magna Carta. Clause 9, dating from 1297: THE City of London shall have all the old Liberties and Customs which it hath been used to have. Moreover We will and grant, that all other Cities, Boroughs, Towns, and the Barons of the Five Ports, and all other Ports, shall have all their Liberties and free Customs. This clause has never been repealed. But there were other forms of royal charter at least as far back as the Norman conquest, and probably before.