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It Depends

8/19/2018

 
Subjective Value - Stuff is only worth what you think it is worth. 
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​This seems easy, everything is worth what the purchaser is willing to pay for it. I thought to myself "yeah of coarse" But then I started realizing how my choices were so often made based on values other people established my perspective started to change.
            What is worth more, a gallon of water or a pound of gold? Now let me change your perspective, you are in the desert about to die of thirst. If you value life then the water is the way to go. How many times do we see a sign 50% off, so we determine that it is a good deal. I learned that  marketing is an attempt to get people to forget that value is subjective. I started to look around. I now had the power to decide for myself what everything was worth to me.

It depends - the only real answer to every question
                       
       Now that I believed in subjective values the answer to every question is it depends. What is two plus two? Does the value of two remain constant. What political party is better republicans or democrats. What is better rap music or anything else. For me anything else, to my kids rap so it depends. As I began to gain perspective I realized that most people spend allot of time trying to make their subjective opinions into objective truth. I'll use an extreme example, is it ok to kill someone? it depends. Are you at war, is it self-defense. All of a sudden I found it hard to hate people for being wrong which made up allot of my personality. I saw that most people look for groups. They find other people who have the same subjective views.  They feel a connection with this group and then agree that their group is right and other groups are wrong. I was into punk rock so I thought of myself as rebelling against groups. Sure enough that put me in the rebel group. I looked like other people in the punk group and I felt a connection with them. Sports teams, religions, political parties, punks and so many other groups.
            Don't worry groups are ok. It is good to feel a connection with others as long as you realize you are agreeing about subjective perspectives. So I can join an "I don't like rap music" group and feel connection. It only becomes a problem when I declare my view to be the objective truth.

*This was a concept I learned in my Economics class in college. The answer is
It Depends still true.
 
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