Wednesday, January 18, 2012

If a grain of rice contains a hundred beads of sweat, should we not determine price in units of labour expended?



3 comments:

  1. Dear Mr Seneviratne

    how can one give an accurate answer when a philosopher is using hundreds of words like pearls to make a question?

    how can one buy or value a beautifully woven mat if the weaver has used trillions of beads of sweat that can not be calculated?

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  2. maybe there is no accurate answer. maybe there are a million possible answers, all legitimate. maybe the philosopher should use sand-granule words instead of pearls. maybe certain weaves are not for purchase. maybe certain weaves can be privatized without payment.

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  3. the value of anything is what you yourself perceive it to be. what went on behind it to make it a reality never enters the mind.

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