From: J. Andrew Rogers (andrew@ceruleansystems.com)
Date: Tue Aug 15 2006 - 22:50:25 MDT
If this thread ever was SL4 material, it certainly is not now.
J. Andrew Rogers
SL4 Auxiliary List Sniper
On Aug 15, 2006, at 9:21 PM, Patrick Crenshaw wrote:
> I am using the term "intrinsic Value" only as I have defined it and
> that it is only a physical property. What I would call the derived
> Value would indeed change.
>
> On 8/15/06, Charles D Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Patrick Crenshaw wrote:
>> > On 8/15/06, Jef Allbright <jef@jefallbright.net> wrote:
>> >> On 8/15/06, Patrick Crenshaw <patrick.crenshaw@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > I'v...
>> >
>> > The intrinsic Value of a particular gram of gold is always the
>> same,
>> > but its derived Value depends on its effect on other things.
>> Obviously
>> > this would mean that it would have different total Values depending
>> > upon where it is and what is around it, but the value that
>> different
>> > people will put on it in the same context has to do with the
>> *people*
>> > being subjective, not the total Value of the gram of gold.
>> So you're asserting that the intrinsic value of a gram of gold
>> doesn't
>> change when you learn a new way to use it (say, electroplating)?
>>
>> I question whether, in that case, gold *has* and intrinsic value. If
>> it's value is changed when you learn, e.g., to make adornments or
>> trade
>> goods out of it, then where *is* there any intrinsic value?
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