Very few things have inherent value. Anything that doesn't **directly** inspire pleasure, security, love, or [[Defining Fun|fun]] is therefore only as important as what you can _do_ with it... ultimately leading back to something that **is** inherently valuable. - Money isn't valuable aside from the _security_ it provides, or the ability to translate it into pleasure or fun. - Gold has relatively little value, aside from your ability to transform it into money. - This iPad isn't valuable aside from what it's [[Marginal]] relative improvements over using my phone, or a pen & paper for [[capturing notes]]. - These notes aren't valuable unless they can be used in the future to create new insights (which is fun) or avoid mistakes (which is the subtraction of a negative). **** # More ## Source - self ## Related