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I see. Hm, even when I imagine a world without any currency, a certain comparative (and therefore already quantitative) approach to valuation still seems inescapable Any individual likes something more than another thing, or needs something more than something else. Such quantification can maybe do without numbers, but that won't eliminate the different....size? extent? if not amount? of value ascribed to different things by different people.

set:// 𓁣 🏴 probably 2mo ago

I had a very interesting conversation with nostr:nprofile1qqsd7agwkg72wt8kjusz0cuw7pqy5sgz3q65qxnv59tq6qdqarre4tgprfmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtmpd3kqf4rmh3 about this last weekend. They identified our problematic relationship to quantification as a potential reason to our obsession with eternal growth. It was all pretty mind-blowing and thus also a little mind-numbing, so I write this with reserves. While the thought process isn't foreign to me, I'm wrestling with the path that the idea is taking in my mind. I don't have any good answers, yet anyways. Thus I figured I'd extend the reflection here, see what comes around. You did not disappoint.

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endolexi 2mo ago

Thanks for the context! I guess I can say that I can easily imagine a readily quantifiable economic system that is absolutely not about growth as some goal in itself, but about meaningful + responsible development in consideration of *all* it's participants, sentient or not. Call it 'green subsistence commons' or whatever, I'm sure some smarter people than I have already come up with something like that. ^^