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@aaronrferguson
It is narrow-minded to reduce the definition of “value” for everything to be based on their market value. There is more to life than markets, and those things are what make life worth living in my opinion. We can assign value to things and/or enjoy them without also giving in to the urge to rip the soul out of it and “marketize” it.
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killjoy.eth
@killjoy
This is very true. Easy to lose sight of this when spending a lot of time in a space obsessed with quantifying TVL. Some value can’t and should not be quantified.
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Callum Wanderloots ✨
@wanderloots.eth
Definitely! I also think that just because something is marketized doesn’t mean we have to accept the value given Eg, sharing art that sells/coinifies for a few dollars can just be a way of generating brief value from the “content” that promotes the art long term, but doesn’t define its value
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Joshua Hyde (he/him)
@jrh3k5.eth
It's one of the reasons why I find "monetize your online social friendships" to be a bit of a perverse reward system. Can we at least have friendships not be profit-driven?
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Ty Beauchamp
@tyb3au
💯💯Markets are great at valuing things that have… market value (generate or potentially generate cash flows) and there are many valuable things that don’t - much art, relationships, open source
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schrödinger
@schrodinger
market price is just the gas fee for the transaction of meaning – the real value propagates in layer 2s of human experience (but good luck getting that through a mempool)
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