Costs more to buy a wooded estate than it does to join a gym. I wish I had a similar dilemma.
J.A.P. On 8 February 2013 13:16, Deepak Shenoy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Clearly, the author attaches more value to chopping wood than the cost > > of the firewood thus produced. But he's wrong in saying we can't or > > shouldn't measure this value using money. Like it or not, money is our > > civilization's measure of value. More accurately, whatever we measure > > value with becomes money. In this case, the author is willing to forgo > > revenue earning work in order to chop wood. Lets say he'd be able to > > earn $100 in that time. Therefore, the time spent chopping wood > > provides him with at least $100.01 worth of satisfaction. As a bonus, > > he also gets firewood -- which just improves the value of the > > transaction. In economic terms, it's an eminently sensible decision. > > Also it's probably time he can shave off the gym routine. And the need > to go get fresh air. Or the health benefits that allow him to work > till an older age, perhaps. > > It could be argued that he pays $100 to chop wood. Nothing wrong with > that - we pay a heck of a lot of money to buy treadmills when we could > walk... > > -- *J. Alfred Prufrock* *"I am moved by fancies that are curled Around these images, and cling: The notion of some infinitely gentle, Infinitely suffering thing"*
