I kept coming back to thinking about producing value and the differences on who produces it. Because it all came back in different forms to me and didn't want to leave my head, I felt the need to write it down. Its a bunch of more or less connected thoughts and I hope it doesn't confuse too much.
Humans solve problems and produce wealth, producing more humans enables humanity to produce more wealth and overcome bigger problems. Source
Value in nature
Productivity producess value.
Wealth is sum of collected value.
Prosperity is having more wealth than expenditure. Being rich.
Eating to survive means eating animals and plants or gathering fruits.
Fruits, nectar and similar can be seen as natural charity.
Wealth is produced by the plant by getting nutrients (value) from the ground. If an animal takes the value by eating, it adds the value to itself, fueling the body and growing muscles. The plant is killed or damaged in the process. It could thus be said that it is a zero sum transaction. Ones gain is the other ones loss.
Females are the only thing producting something new.
Animals have a siple lifecycle:
I.Born -> consume -> reproduce -> die
This leads to a regulation loop between prey and predator:
more prey -> predators increase -> less prey -> predators decrease
Humans have an extra, independent, loop:
I. Born -> consume -> reproduce -> die
II. produce -> exchange (learn -> teach, gather -> trade)
The second loop is increasing wealth if "produce" is bigger than "consume", while only produced wealth is consumed.
Wealth doesn't end with death if most of it is passed down human to human.
If humans have to produce to consume, so can't take from other humans weath, the overall wealth of humanity increases. Because people protect their wealth, it is a risk to steal it and easier to produce insted.
The wealth doesn't come 1:1 from nature, even sand is transformed by filling it into bags before selling.
Thus peacefull humanity constantly produces more and more value. Ever person consuming only self produced wealth is increasing overall wealth of humanity.
Children/mother over Wealth. Source
Do more children mean less wealth? Children don't produce, or if they do they barely produce as much as they consume.(Another reason again child labor).
The adulds don't produce enough to compensate for the children.
If they would produce a little bit more, the overall produced wealth in these countries would skyrocket, because of the high population.
Value and Women
Humans are producing value on their own. But women effectively produce humans. That means women are multiplyer not only in the procreational sense but also regarding the production of value.
A society that thinks there are too many people doesn't respect live, is annoyed by babies and undervalues woman.
Mistreatment of women is fueld by the concept of overpopulation by leading to the following assumptions:
- Woman produce people and thus more problems.
- Woman are responsible for hunger, deseases and poverty.
- Woman shouldn't get too many babies
- Getting babies isn't productive, so they should work like men, "equal rights".
But with increasing technology, women can also easy produce in a way they like. A lot of this due to the actual hard labour being done by machines.
Value and Men
The value of men decreses potentially with the amount of man.
A baby needs one mother and a father.
Many babies need many mothers and only one father.
Thus a woman is more valuable than a man, as long as there are many men.
To be useful, a man thus must create and produce on his own will. He must find food, shelter, safety.
This results in men being designed to be more productive, inventive and disciplined in general. They can carry more, work longer and concentrate longer at a task. But with the ongoing devision of labour, there are a lot of places where women can now easyly compete against men.
Former good paying jobs as fire fighters, welders, farmers were and still are male dominated, but the competition gets tougher at callcenters, management, planing, marketing, ect.
This is fuled also by the increase of woman that want to earn money, partly because women are told getting children isn't desireable anymore. But also not every woman is "tricked" into it, overall it is good that the freedom exist for everyone to do what they like. There is no obligation for woman to get children.
Producing machines is similar to producing children, in the way that it is producing something that produces itself.
Pancakes almost from nothing. Source
Value and money
Earn money by producing value and exchange for money.
Only creating value isn't making money, what is produced has to be valuable for others. Only if it does it can be exchanged against something that is more valuable for the producer. So thinking about value is also thinking about value for others.
Value is subjective: Every person can value a good differently. Especially someone producing the good will value it lower, thus getting more value when exchanging it and collecting wealth.
Thus wealth is collected by providing value for others. In other words helping others.
The more people are helped, the more wealth is collected.
The more wealth, the more people can be helped and the easiert it is to help people.
With abundand wealth, it can be spend without losing life quality.
Wealth can be invested in others, so that they can help others.
Help people helping people.
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