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To do this, we showed 14 to 24-month-old infants how to activate a toy robot, and importantly, we either assigned a positive value, saying "Wow, isn't that great!" or a negative value, saying, "Oh, oh.
One experimenter expressed a negative
value
towards pressing the remote, saying, "Yuck, the toy moved," while the other experimenter expressed a positive value, saying, "Yay, the toy moved."
In study two, it's the two remotes, one with the positive and one with the negative
value.
Last but not least, children in study three chose to press a remote significantly more when the experimenter that expressed a positive
value
was watching, as opposed to the experimenter that had expressed a negative
value.
In the same way, we are communicating a
value
when we mostly complement girls for their pretty hair or their pretty dress, but boys, for their intelligence.
For example, what
value
is being broadcasted when we spend more time smiling at our phone than smiling with other people?
It puts a value, for example, on illegal drug consumption, but not on unpaid care.
What do we
value
in the communities we live in?
In Adam Smith's earlier work, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments," which I think is just as important, he made the observation that the
value
of any government is judged in proportion to the extent that it makes its people happy.
Even if you ignore the scientific
value
of this thing, look at the monetary
value
of this thing.
And these voices will be accompanied by photographs that they took for us of their lives, of the things that they
value
and care about.
Still, in this place, in this grassland where you can see our very first office there on that hill, four years later, there is this one green blop on the Earth's surface ... (Applause) And there are all these animals, and all these people happy, and there's this economic
value.
The acacia trees are of a very low
value
but we need them to restore the micro-climate, to protect the soil and to shake out the grasses.
The final project I'll talk about is one that's very close to my heart, and it involves an economic and social
value
that is associated with epiphytic plants.
You need to feel that people see you and
value
you.
It's got
value.
I am a capitalist, and after a 30-year career in capitalism spanning three dozen companies, generating tens of billions of dollars in market value, I'm not just in the top one percent, I'm in the top .01
The second assumption is that the price of something is always equal to its value, which basically means that if you earn 50,000 dollars a year and I earn 50 million dollars a year, that's because I produce a thousand times as much
value
as you.
But it is this behavioral model which is at the cold, cruel heart of neoliberal economics, and it is as morally corrosive as it is scientifically wrong because, if we accept at face
value
that humans are fundamentally selfish, and then we look around the world at all of the unambiguous prosperity in it, then it follows logically, then it must be true by definition, that billions of individual acts of selfishness magically transubstantiate into prosperity and the common good.
Ten years later, we've programmed over 200 bands and put at least 100,000 dollars directly into the hands of artists and managers, who have in turn spent it on technicians, rehearsals, music videos and other things along the music
value
chain.
Deforestation, extinction and climate change are all global problems that we can solve by giving
value
to our species and ecosystems and by working together with the local people who live next to them.
And so I decided to put all the paints aside for a while, and to ask this question, which was: "Why and how do objects acquire
value
for us?" How does a shirt that I know thousands of people wear, a shirt like this one, how does it somehow feel like it's mine?
So things like toothpicks, thumbtacks, pieces of toilet paper, to see if in the way that I put my energy, my hand, my time into them, that the behavior could actually create a kind of
value
in the work itself.
But around 800 BCE, that began to change: the
value
of bronze declined, causing social upheaval and an economic crisis— what we would call a recession today.
Put another way, the
value
of money decreases.
CA: So there's huge
value
potentially locked up in there that the world's ragpickers would, if they could, make a living from.
It's actually an article of value, not of waste.
Now the villages and the cities and the streets are clean, you don't trip over scrap copper or scrap iron now, because it's an article of value, it gets recycled.
AF: OK, so we need them to simply raise the
value
of the building blocks of plastic from oil and gas, which I call "bad plastic," raise the
value
of that, so that when it spreads through the brands and onto us, the customers, we won't barely even notice an increase in our coffee cup or Coke or Pepsi, or anything.
But what it does, it makes every bit of plastic all over the world an article of
value.
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