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We keep measuring everything's value with something that continuously loses value over time (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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It's becoming really annoying.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I get it, and I wish there was a more stable way to measure value internationally. Not for trade or anything, just a baseline. Something along the line of total global money value / total supply.

I'm not understanding where you're going with this. What problem are you trying to solve? Lets say for a moment you did find this magical objective and fair international measurement method. What then? How would you use apply it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Honestly? Sometimes my brain just runs with stuff like this. Having travelled enough, it gets really fascinating, what's expensive where and why. A universal value metric would be about as useful to me as the Kelvin scale is. It's nice to have it as a thought tool, but it's not particularly useful day-to-day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Gotcha, so more of a solution looking for a problem at this point? I thought you were advocating for a policy path I wasn't understanding. Nothing wrong with simply ideating for the sake of exploration. I do the same myself.