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Re:Extreme Saving: A Man, His Van and Five-Figure Debt by tekacs on Thursday May 30, 2013 @04:30PM (#5795016)
I'm pretty sure food falls into that category. :P

Edge cases aside, surely 'learning how to think' or indeed just learning is tremendously valuable - surely the ultimate value that all other kinds are implicitly converted to (cf. heat in thermodynamics[1]) is 'personal value' such as satisfaction?

[1]: A simplistic view, please don't flame me. :/

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Re:Extreme Saving: A Man, His Van and Five-Figure Debt by grannyg00se on Thursday May 30, 2013 @06:33PM (#5795696)
Valuable for sure.

A lot of things are personally valuable but you don't necessarily spend tens of thousands of dollars on them - especially when they have no monetary value. And you have no real income.

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