Comment by mzhaase
10 hours ago
Why should we only do things that produce some sort of value? Do we really want to reduce all of human existence to increasing profits?
10 hours ago
Why should we only do things that produce some sort of value? Do we really want to reduce all of human existence to increasing profits?
You said "value" and "profit". I said "useful".
What’s a better method for determining how to utilize and distribute resources? To determine where energy should be used and where it should be moved from?
Some things are just enjoyable. I get no real utility from photography - it’s not my career, it’s not a side gig, and I’m not giving prints out as gifts. Most of the shots never get printed at all. I do it because I enjoy the act itself, of knowing how to make an image frozen in time look a particular way by tweaking parameters on the camera, and then seeing the result. I furthermore enjoy the fact that I could achieve the same result on a dumb film camera, because I spent time learning the fundamentals.