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This is a rather long quote, but it's relevant: >Finally, many important things are notable for their absence from the cost-density table. Even in the twenty-f
by ggreer 12y ago
This is a rather long quote, but it's relevant:
>Finally, many important things are notable for their absence from the cost-density table. Even in the twenty-first century, we still can’t buy true love, respect, or fulfillment.
>We can’t even buy decent replacements for biological adaptations that go wrong—artificial eyes, brains, hands, or wombs. Our bodily organs are the most value-dense items that we can call our own. They are beyond price, but we take them for granted until we lose them through accident or age.
>Our inherited legacy of adaptations is literally precious. Even the poorest parents give their children vast riches, in the form of senses, emotions, and mental faculties that have been optimized through millions of years of product development. They are so reliable, efficient, intricate, self-growing, and self-repairing that no technology comes anywhere close to matching them. The human genome is the ancestral vault of riches, the secret Swiss account. It is very important for consumerist capitalism to make us forget this, to take for granted what we owe to life itself. Beyond our true necessities and luxuries—our biological adaptations—we get only a little added value from market-traded products.
— Geoffrey Miller (from Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior)
In other words, your health is worth much more than your startup's expected value. Drop everything else and fix it.
Also, you mention that you need new glasses. If you drive, you are endangering others.