Re:My own private basic income
by Terr_ on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @06:39PM
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Y'all're getting way too hung up on the colloquial connotations of "value" here. It's descriptive, not normative.
This is marginal value, the stuff that someone would give up in order to have one more of a thing.
A celebrity often makes money because, for whatever reason, nobody can easily and reliably produce an equivalent one on demand.
Folks working for wages in less-glamorous positions are doing valuable things for society, but fundamentally their pay is based on how easily society could replace them.
This is marginal value, the stuff that someone would give up in order to have one more of a thing.
A celebrity often makes money because, for whatever reason, nobody can easily and reliably produce an equivalent one on demand.
Folks working for wages in less-glamorous positions are doing valuable things for society, but fundamentally their pay is based on how easily society could replace them.