Re:Anthropic Capitalism and the New Gimmick Economy
by ArkyBeagle on Friday April 22, 2016 @03:38AM
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No, because someone believes someone else thinks it's worth it. There's a mimetic component to market economics that gets no treatment in writing.
Re:Anthropic Capitalism and the New Gimmick Economy
by simonh on Thursday April 21, 2016 @11:58PM
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I'm sure that's correct, but it's not quantifiable. All we can really know is how much people are actually willing to pay for a thing. I agree that only puts a lower bound on the real value of that thing to them, but it's the only objective signal we have to work from.
A Picasso can sell at a lot of money because not because of the labor put into it, the materials it's made of, etc. It sells for a lot of money because to someone believes it's worth it.