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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] I get the feeling that this conversation has taken a wrong turn somewhere, but I can't put my finger on where. Anyway. Some basic facts, as I see them. 1.) Human beings are value-seeking and -laden entities. This is just a complicated way of saying they want things and they want them for reasons, I guess. These values are by and large assigned internally, having been, it seems, internalized via the evolutionary process. Survival is a Good Thing, how do I maximize it? And so on. 2.) Any particular area can only have so much in the way of resources, or, uh, items "pregnant" with value. This is why we find some things more valuable than others. Neither of these things are likely to change. But within them, values are changing all the time. As the ways in which we interact with value evolves, so do our concepts of value itself. Money is just one method of tracking the value people assign to things. Its ubiquity is a sign of its usefulness and accuracy. But that's tied to our current social, technological, and economic environment. As our values change, and the way we interact and modify goods changes, we could very well wind up with some "score keeping" system that would seem as weird and convoluted to us today as a trip to First National would to the first people to move into Ur. My suspicion is that we'll never consider ourselves to have moved "beyond money," because money is just a good word to use for our value-measuring whatsits. But just what that measuring consists of can surely change wildly. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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