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A Priceless Evaluation of Value
Understanding the priceless nature of value could be crucial to our survival.
Background
Value seems a much misunderstood concept. In any search on the essential meaning of value, we are bombarded with all manner of financial definitions.
We seem driven to quantifying value in terms of finance. Maybe that is our instinct.
But so far, we do not seem to have got it anywhere near right.
We often see where much financial gain is made, yet as a direct consequence, where much value is removed from our world.
The association of finance with value that we have in our current mindset comes from an age of antiquity, in which there was no internet, nor even any form of electronic communications, an age in which monarchs and dictators ruled the peoples of the world, perhaps necessarily.
Technology has progressed now by a truly mind boggling degree since the days of Newton associating the fall of an apple with gravity.
And yet the societal business model manifesting as slavery, used since before even then remains unchanged.
Scope
This article highlights the fundamental concept and meaning of “Value”, the problems…
