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14 sats \ 3 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 15 Nov \ on: What if you were no longer useful tomorrow? AskSN
What does USA produce now?
Mostly financial derivatives and military hardware.
Debt and Death.
A major part of our place in the world is what we contribute.
People like/need to feel important and producing things others want is a natural way to achieve that sense of worth and importance.
Do we have intrinsic value no matter what we can or cannot produce for others - I believe so but in our materialistic world it is often not the narrative that is promoted.
Do and be what you want to be but also recognise we are to a large extent social animals and that humans can usually achieve the most wealth, security and knowledge by working together.
Thanks for sharing 👌
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how do you characterise the possible differences between production and contribution?
by my naive appreciation of "voluntaryism"1, the acts themselves that get variously considered by society as contributions, productions, creations, works, etc are not significantly altered by whether someone labels them as production or contribution. noise contributed is still noise produced, regardless of the musician's motivation.
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I don't go much further than window-shopping the abstracts of all these dogmatic arguments about different flavors of even-more-explainable-altruism; if ethical questions have some possible attack that is compatible with one's intuitive morality and effectable actions, then the idea of action probably arises without slogging through any stuffy old philosophy's prosaganda, however eloquent the fans might consider it. ↩
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Production might relate more to physical goods produced, whereas contributions might refer more to services.
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