What we value
Examining what this "value" thing is we are all trying to create
What we value
"Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer" is actually an excellent and life-affirming attitude
Divya Venn • Tweet
This is incredible
Endowment effect
Valuing an object more, only because you possess it.
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We are emotionally attached to things that we own. It makes sense: There’s an emotional investment in having made the decision, in shifting or cementing your identify as “a person who would have this object,” and how you believe that ownership will be perceived by others. ... See more
Valuing an object more, only because you possess it.
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We are emotionally attached to things that we own. It makes sense: There’s an emotional investment in having made the decision, in shifting or cementing your identify as “a person who would have this object,” and how you believe that ownership will be perceived by others. ... See more
Jason Cohen • The Serengeti Plain Fallacy: Fallacies that aren't fallacies
This shows how value is an individual quality. In order to purchase something, you have to value it at or above the price.
Collapsed states are simpler states, so anyone working towards a simpler state — and anyone telling an intelligible tale is doing precisely that — is working towards a collapse. The failure of a world begins with a failure of the imagination to comprehend increased complexity, and an urge to retreat to greater simplicity.
every story is a degrowth story
I don’t think this is necessarily degrowth, it’s compression. This feels like simplicity is a return to understanding of what’s valuable after building on top of it. It’s the flower budding, blooming, wilting, and blooming again. It’s cyclical and growth oriented, because uncapped growth is deadly to the environment and will be rejected.
The binge eating and compulsive spending, the perfectionism and procrastination, the ways we habitually go into hiding.
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A lot of this is rooted in societal pressures.
the peaks of shame and grandiosity
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the past telling us we are bad for not conforming to the safety of rules that no longer apply and the future pulling us toward a state that we know surely must exist somewhere, and we’ve just got to get to it, then we’ll be safe.
All we know is that we aren’t safe now. And all we want to be is safe.
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
Why wasn’t this here yet?
Efficiency doesn’t necessarily reduce our workload—it expands it. The more we’re capable of producing, the more we expect of ourselves and others. The more output becomes possible, the further the goalposts are moved on what is considered “enough.”
AI Turned Me Into a Content Agency of One
This statement is the key. The expectations grow with technology, and wages don’t grow with expectations. Wages are based on past values.
A large portion of users said they would pay money for TikTok and Instagram to not exist, suggesting these products have negative utility for many people.
Jonah Peretti • The Anti-SNARF Manifesto
Economic Bizzaro World now in play