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Why is useful important? Back in the day residents would sometimes get a western good and they would save the packaging (think plastic spray can lids) because
by bluGill 1y ago
Why is useful important? Back in the day residents would sometimes get a western good and they would save the packaging (think plastic spray can lids) because it was color unlike the soviet versions. Both worked (well we will assume though cheating putting water in in a cleaning bottle was not unknown when quotas were not met), but consumers want that beauty.
which is to say a lot of needless things are still highly desired.
- card_zero 1y agoI don't know about useful, but right is important. You could imagine if everybody spontaneously started going around doing wrong. To some unclear extent this is what normally happens, and those people doing wrong should stop. It's not even entirely their own business, right and wrong: even when they have property rights on their side, it's still OK for other people to pass comment. And it could be that colored bottle caps are a waste of time and attention, and wrong, and that can be an opinion. But morality doesn't respond well to central management.
- fragmede 1y agoReligion may not be as important as it once was, but the history of Catholicism would seem to be at odds with that.
- card_zero 1y agoNow I'm unsure whether I'm supposed to consider it as a source of morality, or as another kind of colorful packaging. I guess you're going for the "central management of morality" angle. But it doesn't micromanage - much - and it isn't really enforced.
- quacked 1y agoThere's a certain percentage of "available labor" spending that, if it goes away, causes death directly. Maintaining the power grid and the cold storage network comes to mind, although of course both of those resources are massively overpowered if you're thinking "survival only" and not "make sure gas stations have Klondike bars".