A bananas value is created when it grows. Sure your brain might orgasm harder from bananas than my brain. But allocating it correctly rather prevents wastage than creates anything.
It doesn’t need to be a serious problem. “only happens” in a previous post seems to point at a definitional impossibility. A claim of “there is handful of lighting strikes each year” is a relevant rebuttal to “Lightning never strikes” even if one is not arguing that everybody should always be afraid of lightning when going outside. But for somebody that is building a house wondering whether they should add a lightning rod impossiblity vs seldomness is very relevant.
I see a lot of consumtion that is more of “what you are supposed to do” or being a kind of signal where what is the venue of signaling isn’t significant. This is not an insignificant or round-offable force.
Advertisement is an example of a constructed cognitive state that when I am in it I don’t need outside coersion and I am doing “voluntary stuff” for most purposes. However parties that don’t have my larger values so close to their heart have vested interest in constructing it. Just because I can doesn’t mean I should. Certainly that I do doesn’t mean that I should.
Both instant gratification and delayed gratification schemes can be used to rationalise consumption behaviour. However they tend to give contradictory recommendations. A greek philosphers advice to live a happy life can be taken to mean that having stable relationships and finding deep purpose of furthering science. Or a naive sensual hedonist might think that means drink wine every night and have a hang over every day. Just because one identifies wine making oneself to have a pleasant feeling doesn’t mean that correct answer to “drink or not to drink” is to drink. If one has an accounting scheme that does recognise the raveness of orgies but doesn’t recognise the satisfaction of progressing human knowledge then an option that gives a little better orgies but wastes a lot of knowledge potential gets more aggressively selected. Somebody that wants to make a name for themselfs as organising great parties might actively want for people not to understand feelings of progress so that their parties have greater attendance and more central role in society.
Holidays like black friday mean some cultural things for some. But as the cultural meanings are somewhat foreign to me I do note how marketers use it as a standard sale promotion period. Given that it is associated with trampling deaths it seems mostly parasitic for the “actual activities” if there are any left under this simulcra.
The teorethical foundations for microeconomics as far as I understand it means that you need to first know what you want in order to determine a value. Having a thought mode where you determine what you want based on “produced value” puts the cart before the horse.
A bananas value is created when it grows. Sure your brain might orgasm harder from bananas than my brain. But allocating it correctly rather prevents wastage than creates anything.
It doesn’t need to be a serious problem. “only happens” in a previous post seems to point at a definitional impossibility. A claim of “there is handful of lighting strikes each year” is a relevant rebuttal to “Lightning never strikes” even if one is not arguing that everybody should always be afraid of lightning when going outside. But for somebody that is building a house wondering whether they should add a lightning rod impossiblity vs seldomness is very relevant.
I see a lot of consumtion that is more of “what you are supposed to do” or being a kind of signal where what is the venue of signaling isn’t significant. This is not an insignificant or round-offable force.
Advertisement is an example of a constructed cognitive state that when I am in it I don’t need outside coersion and I am doing “voluntary stuff” for most purposes. However parties that don’t have my larger values so close to their heart have vested interest in constructing it. Just because I can doesn’t mean I should. Certainly that I do doesn’t mean that I should.
Both instant gratification and delayed gratification schemes can be used to rationalise consumption behaviour. However they tend to give contradictory recommendations. A greek philosphers advice to live a happy life can be taken to mean that having stable relationships and finding deep purpose of furthering science. Or a naive sensual hedonist might think that means drink wine every night and have a hang over every day. Just because one identifies wine making oneself to have a pleasant feeling doesn’t mean that correct answer to “drink or not to drink” is to drink. If one has an accounting scheme that does recognise the raveness of orgies but doesn’t recognise the satisfaction of progressing human knowledge then an option that gives a little better orgies but wastes a lot of knowledge potential gets more aggressively selected. Somebody that wants to make a name for themselfs as organising great parties might actively want for people not to understand feelings of progress so that their parties have greater attendance and more central role in society.
Holidays like black friday mean some cultural things for some. But as the cultural meanings are somewhat foreign to me I do note how marketers use it as a standard sale promotion period. Given that it is associated with trampling deaths it seems mostly parasitic for the “actual activities” if there are any left under this simulcra.
The teorethical foundations for microeconomics as far as I understand it means that you need to first know what you want in order to determine a value. Having a thought mode where you determine what you want based on “produced value” puts the cart before the horse.