Jim Devine quotes me: >> How would you act if your life were >> infinitely valuable? How would others act?
He then asks: > Absurd? Try and answer my questions above to see the utter absurdity of your position. > if things went right, they (Marx & Engels) > would reject the idea that labor is the > only measure of opportunity cost. Among > other things, there's the environmental > impact. Costs and benefits are, ultimately, social labor but with a different algebraic sign. The "environmental impact" is costly because, given the state of technology, undoing the damage it entails to us takes a huge amount of social labor. Given the state of technology, producing goods such as clean air, fresh water, pristine land, a decent global climate, etc. is extremely expensive in terms of social labor. As far as we know, the rest of nature doesn't reflect on itself the way we humans do. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
