Taxes durring shut down?

[Ahldagor]

Originally Posted by Orruar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

"A system could be made". Are you implying that you could somehow impose an artificial value system on diamonds? Good luck with that, lol. Diamond value vs size is the way it is because you can't just combine 2 small diamonds to make a larger diamond. People understand this and the natural distribution of diamond size has great influence on the value. If all diamonds naturally came out of the ground with the exact same size (and then were only broken down when the sum of value of the smaller diamonds exceeded the value of the larger one), then you could have a system as you suggest. As that is not how it works in the natural world, your system wouldn't work. Unless you somehow got everyone to change their perception of value, which seems like a Herculean task.

perception of value. that's the behavior i was saying. diamond has no value as it stands until a human came along and decided it was valuable (this has been previously said in the thread btw, and was the origin or my "what are you talking about") and that notion has been sustained by humans. it's like the sun only becomes "the sun" (all the symbolism and metaphors attached to it along with the scientific notions) after humans have attached those notions to it. the base perception would be unknown because we don't know how to engage the sun or diamonds as if there wasn't significance attached to them. that herculean task is possible, but uncomfortable because it forces an absolute nihilism to be the starting point; then creation begins.

how do you think that we think, and try not to use cognitive science or any notions of a ghost in the machine (matrix bullshit) kind of thing. it's a fun test.