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When I am cooking a Thai meal, while my daughter is playing guitar for me, I feel wealthy. But it is an entirely different value - it is the mortar that holds people together, and also maybe keeps them a little bit apart.

The more important economic question is why do we work?

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Wed Jul 12th, 2006 at 05:34:43 PM EST
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With a broad enough definition of 'work' we can't help not to. But I suspect you have a narrower definition in mind.

How much would someone have to pay you to work on a project instead of cooking Thai to your daughter's playing? That's one way to quantify how wealthy you feel.

Nothing is 'mere'. — Richard P. Feynman

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jul 12th, 2006 at 05:42:29 PM EST
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This sounds like the old one about the film producer and the starlet. "Will you sleep with me for a 100 bucks?" "Of course not" "Would you sleep with me for a thousand dollars?" "No" "How about a million?" "Maybe" "OK, we've established you're a hooker, now we're just arguing about the price".

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Wed Jul 12th, 2006 at 06:05:54 PM EST
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The way I remember that one is "will you sleep with me for £1M?" "Maybe" "and for £100?" "What kind of woman do you think I am?" "Oh, we've established that, now we're just haggling about the price".

But cultural hiccups about sex and money being dirty (separately, let alone in combination) that is the only reasonable way to evaluate things.

Nothing is 'mere'. — Richard P. Feynman

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jul 12th, 2006 at 06:13:38 PM EST
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I mean "cultural hiccups about ... aside, that is..."

Nothing is 'mere'. — Richard P. Feynman

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jul 12th, 2006 at 06:14:34 PM EST
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Brilliant (none / 0)

I must be having a bad memory day. You are right again.

I need sleep...

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Wed Jul 12th, 2006 at 06:21:59 PM EST
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