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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever?

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To: Neocon who wrote (12591)	5/20/1999 7:41:00 AM
From: PiMac	Read Replies (1) of 13994

Neocon, <We can only value something against a standard. We fix the value of a particular item by ranking it on a scale relative to other goods (or evils, for that matter). For example, oil painting is better than watercolor (more expressive); Mozart is better than Rossini (more thematically inventive); homicide is worse than battery (more destructive)...> Standards, or values, exist regarding the value of things and nonthings, as you point out. But the value-exchange, or money, is a cross standard device. When the boss says I'll trade you trust in my management for your ability to retire. It is a different trade than 2 apples for a dime. The dime can buy a hot pretzle. So two apples buys a pretzle. But my ability to retire or not transfers to nothing else. That universal exchange [though not a constant exchange] is what is lacking in those 'unreal' things and systems.

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