On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 02:19, Robert J. Hansen <r...@sixdemonbag.org> wrote:
> > Nonetheless, it gets incredibly close. I wonder if there might be a cost > involved with acquiring anything -- at the very least, you have to make the > decision to acquire it. > > Necessarily there must be. Free trade depends on value differentials, > after all. How about outside of trade? Say I breathe air. There is cost and value involved. Remove the cost, and I'd still breathe the air. Trade requires two parties, but acquisition doesn't. Of course, that limits us to exchanges involving only one party and "nature". That's where the cost to society comes in, which I excluded from consideration. Now, for breathing there are several types of cost involved. I am exchanging energy (through muscle movement) for fresh air. Additionally, I have the opportunity cost of breathing instead of, say, eating. Assuming I don't want to eat all the time, and looking at it on a larger scale, I am just gaining new energy. So, could it be that there is no cost (to myself, not to society, and also not indirectly through society to me) to breathing air? Or would you say a "larger scale" interpretation doesn't cut it? Also, want to take this off-list? -- Jerome Baum tel +49-1578-8434336 email jer...@jeromebaum.com -- PGP: A0E4 B2D4 94E6 20EE 85BA E45B 63E4 2BD8 C58C 753A PGP: 2C23 EBFF DF1A 840D 2351 F5F5 F25B A03F 2152 36DA
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