Value Beyond Money
Discussions center on whether true value is limited to monetary or market-based measures, arguing for intrinsic, personal, social, and non-economic forms of value creation independent of financial gain.
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Value doesn't have to be money. You can be nice to someone and that adds value to the world and counts as value creation. If all you do is suck value out of the world then I would argue you are a bad human being.
Value is never created, it is a human construct assigned by humans to something for a variety of reasons. It isn't tied to work or any type of currency. So "commenting on HN, tweeting, reading about other companies" can indeed have value if humans deem it having a value.
Claims like this are in general not well-founded. There is no objective way to determine the value of a thing outside of the economy. If there were, and if it were meaningful such that $ value converges to the "real value" economy would be a trivial game. So, really what you propose cannot exist.
Just because something doesn't make anyone money doesn't mean it doesn't have value.
Things can have value without the need to bring money into the equation.
Yep that's pretty much it.If it was all about value, we wouldn't have people doing "work" who not only don't generate any material wealth but actually consume a lot of value for nothing very valuable in return.
The end goal of work isn't money, it's to produce something of value. Money is just a technology for trading things of value.
The author's point is that "valuable" isn't the same as "valued by others who are willing to pay you", and that the latter can interfere with the former.
Spot on! I'm looking forward for the day money/value will based on not only on what you provide/create but also on how much that impacts all the connected things to make that happen.
Is it useless if it has value to the creator?