Re:McKinsey Proposed Paying Pharmacy Companies Rebates for O...
by AmericanChopper on Friday November 27, 2020 @09:12PM
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There are many abstract concepts included in the definition of the word resources. You’re trying to argue that it means computable wealth and absolutely nothing else. Which is very obviously ridiculous, and it’s hard to see this comment as anything other than an attempt to start some pointless semantic debate.
Re:McKinsey Proposed Paying Pharmacy Companies Rebates for O...
by sudosysgen on Friday November 27, 2020 @10:25PM
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I'm certainly not saying that it is equivalent to comptable wealth. Political power fits all three criteria and is not comptable wealth, so does any other kind of resource one could think of.
There's three important attributes of resources. Firstly, resources of a same type, defined by their use, are fungible. Secondly, resources are a means to an end. Lastly, resources are valuable either because of their uses or because they can be exchanged.
Now, love, fulfillment, and the feeling of friendship realize neither of the three properties. Neither does a wife or a friend.
Because of that, I don't think one can say that every relationship a person has is based on nothing more than resources. Personal relationships are categorically different.
Additionally, unlike material relationships, personal relationships are most healthy and effective when they are between equals.