Message from @Undead Mockingbird
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And wheter or not should put measures to guarantee survival for most
Prices and markets simply seek to quantify it, but they express the value that people project on those things. That is why even human life can never "exceed" any supply.
Human life was there to begin with. It exists as a thing we value, regardless of the monetary supply. The only thing we can ask of a price is whether it accurately reflects the relative value we place on that thing or not.
It has in a sense
How?
What % of the economy is entertainment? Or other non neccessities?
See, you are back there.
Entertainment will have whatever price tag corresponds to the relative value people assign to it in a free market.
The value judgement is not necessary. It's already included in the price tag.
But how many lives are dependant on it for its livelyhood?
I don't know.
All of that is expressed in the price tag.
If you say that something is so unimportant and that there are worthier things in the world then YOU made a judgment of value.
And, in a free market, that judgement, your judgement, is included in the price tag.
Well what im saying is we need to buy things we dont need or it all falls apart
If everybody thought that Britney Spears was not as good as Beethoven, the concert tickets wouldn't cost as much. People blame capitalism, but every dollar is a vote. YOU vote what you value.
No, we don't.
It doesn't care what things we buy.
So losing a huge source of revenue is ok?
Markets are built from the ground up
Ome thing fails and it takes another with it
Its a source of jobs
Because people value it. That means it's reflected in the price tag.
If enough people think like you and see entertainment as a bad way to spend money, its price tag would fall correspondingly.
You seem to see such things as some necessity to keep an economy running.
Things don't have inherent value or price tags. It's whatever value it has to us.
And economies are based on things being created that people value. The dollar bill doesn't care.
Right
The dollar bill itself doesnt fix anything
Of course there are things that satisfy more immediate needs, such as food.
If food was scarce, if there was only one sack of potatoes each month, its price, relative to entertainment, would change.
Then food would be expensive.
But food is not only essential, it is also plentiful in our parts of the world nowadays, thank god, which is why its price tag has fallen. It is still as necessary for us to survive before, but there is more of it, there is more of a supply.
Yea. But im frustrated with how things are going.
Like how things are made cheaper but more expensive
What is the value of a human life? Sadly, to many people it's not much. It's not capitalism that has failed - it's people. The price tag just reflects that.
And because there is more and more people to sell
The value of each individual goes down
Especially since ppl can sell worldwide
And your frustration is an expression of your value, how you spend your money.