There are very few economic frameworks that actually value people at all. And unless your idea is to replace capitalism with an agrarian structure, then almost anything else you could suggest would see people as an expense, which is the economic opposite of value.
Of the few, which would be one?
Capitalism, Feudalism, and maybe Mercantilism all come to mind.
Re:90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0
by noelherrick on Friday April 21, 2023 @11:01AM
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If you really think that, then shouldn't you abolish economics? If a system doesn't value humans, and in fact in its history has proven it will turn babies into profit (lookin' at you Nestle), it's anti-human and as a human, it's immoral to support that system.
hur dur capitalism bad
If countries like Bangladesh had the systems and trappings we associate with capitalism in the West (companies, stock markets, lots of rich people in charge), the people at the bottom of their society would not be earning $0.
They'd still be relatively speaking poor... but thousands of times better off, like poor Westerners are thousands of times better off than poor Bangladeshis.
I'm from a poor country (not Bangladesh) and the #1 difference in outcome between that country and the rich country I live in now (Canada) is the capitalistic systems that are in place everywhere.
There are other ways of valuing those people, but you have to break out of a capitalist framework if you want to value them at more than a few dollars a day.