I think that among all this talk about how to control values there should be better dicussion about what values are.
To me values are items in a list for me. The items in my list grow and shrink. I know that at any time I can only attain and hold a finit number of items, but that number may change. They are the things I keep near to me; the things I fill my life with. Some of them may be people. My list may be unique at any given time.
We are partaking in this discussion because we value a free and open discussion about value assignment or because we are looking in this list for something to solve some problem. Whatever reason we have to seek this here has by our own decisions brought us here. When we stop receiving value from this list we may leave it.
We have made one value decission to spend our limited resource of time here instead of doing the dishes or whatever. That is one value judgement in one day. Imagine the millions of myriad decisions a person makes. Some of them may be purchases.
The only problem and the only result of you casting your net around to catch these values is not that you will catch them, but that you will destroy the delecate web of algea and kelp and plankton of decisions in the huge decisionator network eco-system of the economy.
Certainly better education of each individual decision maker would be helpfull, but you ignore the value of prices in sending signals. Money is only one way we express our values. Our decission maker network benifits from faster signals. As money gets manipulated it disrupts the spead and validity of those price signals and our desicionator network suffers.
We will need to replace that fast firing price system with a faster network to tell people what to strive for and how to spend each and every day, if we want to improve the knowledge of decisionators in the network. What is faster than free floating price purchases? We are all members of the value inter-network and we all benifit from better faster comunications just as we do from high speed web and comments lists with free and open discussions.
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