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@mustardness
The link that follows addresses some types of crime in the ninth was crime city in US, Richmond CA, where town pays criminals to not commit crimes and it not is working it saves.
Ouch.
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Looks like South Africa is substantially going to make the same mistakes Zimbabwe did...
--> @keithprosser: Money is a measure of value but it's as if the standards commitee continually refined 'centrigrade' by saying 'today the temperature of boiling water is 120 degrees'.
Indeed. Again, the difference between physical reality and valuation attributed by a sentient mind or minds.
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@secularmerlin
Agreed that money has no intrinsic value. Nothing has "value," however, unless there is a mind or minds that attribute it. There is physical reality, like some things being harder than others under certain conditions, and the fact that humans need protein and fat to survive, but that is not like the perceived value in money.
You mentioned things that help us to survive - that goes to desire, i.e. the wish to live, if it's present. Saying something like, "Food is good," depends on what is desired, in the end. The concept of "intrinsic value" seems to forget that there has to be 'somebody' there in the first place to feel good/bad/right/wrong etc.
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a real thing with intrinsic value of its own.
"Intrinsic value" - where do you see that, anywhere? Isn't it always in the eye of the beholder? Doesn't there have to be a mind to feel "good/bad/right/wrong" in the first place - or else there would be no valuation taking place? The universe itself, does not care.
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