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Well, you could argue the labor theory of value, and since that directory consumed your labor it theoretically has value. Does it have value to anyone but you?
by quinnchr 13y ago
Well, you could argue the labor theory of value, and since that directory consumed your labor it theoretically has value. Does it have value to anyone but you? Probably not.
- jlgreco 13y agoIt would have some value to me, but not much in the grand scheme of things. I don't look at that directory and think "Welp, that was [X]-grand well spent", because just getting that directory wasn't worth many thousands of dollars to me. That's not where the wealth represented by all of those thousands of dollars went, so the wealth represented by all of those thousands of dollars cannot be destroyed by deleting it.
- quinnchr 13y agoI agree, I'm really just arguing technicalities here. The majority of your labor went into acquiring the knowledge, not writing the code in that directory. But that directory still holds value, however minuscule it may be, and it is still being destroyed. If I deleted that directory I would think "Welp, that was [x]-hours of time well spent," which is where it derives it's value* not from the money I spent on my education. *That is, of course, if you ascribe to the labor theory of value.