If money represents value then every financial transaction has a moral
dimension.
How you earn your money then becomes an ethical question.
How you spend your money then becomes an issue of right and wrong.
Where you invest your money then becomes a moral choice.
If the things that can be bought and sold include everything from sex, to
cars, to novels then money can belong to every level of static quality. The
question is really a matter of the propriety of commonifying these things.
And then there are priceless things. How much is genuine love worth? I
happen to know that it took a team of Economists to provide a scientific and
rational methods to figure the cash value of a forest that can never be
legally bought or sold.
Our modern economy tends to prevert and warp certain values. As the saying
goes, "they" know the cost of everything but understand the value of
nothing. Slavery, for example, was defended on economic grounds.
I'd bet a very large amount of money that Pirsig is NOT an Ayn Rand fan. : )
DMB
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