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On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Louigi Verona  wrote:

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> Additionally, I question the usefulness of such analysis, as simply knowing

> how much money went into

> something and how much of that investment was returned says very little

> about the issue and the

> validity of concepts behind it.

there's no reason to worry about establishing the value of something

if you haven't actually managed to create it yet.
if you can create something without an "investment" in it, that can

lead to some fairly cool things. but for the most part, it tends to

involve an investment of either time, or money, or both. the act of

doing this is "an economic analysis" whether its done explicitly or

not. it means that for one reason or another someone values whatever

it is they are creating more than the other things they might spend

their time and/or money on.
if you have lots of surplus time or lots of surplus money, making that

decision is relatively easy. if you're working on something that feels

like your life's purpose (for now, at least) then making that decision

is relatively easy. these two cases might be so easy that the people

making the choice might not even notice that they are making it. but

most people find themselves somewhere in the middle of these extremes,

and thus they do tend to have to give at least a little thought to how

to allocate (limited) resources to the different things that they

would like to do or to have.

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