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One of the things we know about comparison: that when we compare one thing to the other, it changes its value.
So I'm telling you something you already knew: namely, that comparison changes the value of things.
The comparisons we make when we are appraising value, where we're trying to estimate how much we'll like things, are not the same comparisons we'll be making when we consume them.
As Plato said, what space is to size, time is to value.
Because I could go on for about two hours with evidence of people's inability to estimate odds and inability to estimate value.
If we're not here in 10,000 years, it's going to be because we could not take advantage of the gift given to us by a young Dutch fellow in 1738, because we underestimated the odds of our future pains and overestimated the value of our present pleasures.
But I suspect you're making the exact same error you're accusing those people of, which is the error of value.
It turns out that the value of buying a lottery ticket is not winning.
Apart from the intrinsic value of the biology and mineralogy and geo-microbiology that we do there, we're also using these as templates for figuring out how to go look for life on other planets.
The next element is the fact that I have applied a value judgment and my value judgment is that the presence of life is better than no life.
On this next slide, is an interesting history of what we really have seen in infrastructure, because whether I give you a perfect Skycar, the perfect vehicle for use, it's going to have very little value to you unless you've got a system to use it in.
Long-distance telephone service sold on price, price, price; fast-food restaurants with all their value pricing; and even the Internet is commoditizing not just goods, but services as well.
What that means is that it's time to move to a new level of economic value.
All right, now, there is value for fake.
And think about the economic value they have provided by that experience.
But maybe they have another faculty, something else that would seem equally irrational to us, but they actually tap into some great possible value there.
But we are just literally deaf to that kind of value.
So, because it went into mass production, costs were reduced, 100 years of refinement, emissions were reduced, tremendous production value.
"Irrational" is Harvard Business School's and New York Business School's term for fat profit margins and shareholder value.
Now, the number one algorithm for shareholder value isn't technology.
You want to target the most irrational organs for shareholder value.
And I'm not doubting their progressive values, but it foots to shareholder value, because we as progressives are seen as weak.
We no longer worship at the altar of character, of kindness, but of innovation and people who create shareholder value.
In between the time they announced the acquisition of Whole Foods and when it closed, Kroger, the largest pure-play grocer in America, shed a third of its value, because Amazon purchased a grocer one-eleventh the size of Kroger.
I believe it's because the ratio of one-percent pursuit of shareholder value and 99 percent the betterment of humanity that technology used to play has been flipped, and now we're totally focused on shareholder value instead of humanity.
We have set up a society that values shareholder value over everything, and they're doing what they're supposed to be doing.
SG: I think it's very difficult to set an organization up as we do, to pursue shareholder value above all else.
We could actually lower the rates of these catastrophic events tomorrow, but it requires that we value the quality of care we deliver to pregnant women before, during and after pregnancy.
The question is: Are we as a society ready to value pregnant women from every community?
The first is that we are cognizant of what other people value, like what they will approve or disapprove of, such as not wearing pj's to these sorts of settings.
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