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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (3 children)

i like how my interpretation is completely different to everyone else.

naturally, if you were to be carrying a unit of monetary value, you would probably want the one that requires less space, and weight, though the primary factor here is weight. (mass if you want to fucking tumblr me)

30 dollars in bills is more valuable than 30 dollars in coins because it's more portable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

They're fungible, and can be transferred into each other easily. They have the same value but different situational utility.

Value is not and cannot be derived solely based on utility in a vacuum. This is proven by the marginal utility of too many titties. While one pair of titties may have value based on their utility, each subsequent pair of titties decreases in value, as you only have so many hands and so much time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Too many titties - does not compute, pls provide a better metaphor.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

gotta fucken mouth don't i

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Sure but it quickly becomes meaningless. Once you have a billion titties, now you don't even have the time to look at them all. That's why a sharp increase on the rate of the progressive annual titty tax is very important.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

yes. one has drawbacks for one set of preferences, the other has drawbacks in different ways, for example, if you ran a shop that needed to give change, or you were going to the casino to play slots, or arcade machines, or you were covering a floor in coins decoratively, or you needed to club someone about the head with a heavy sack...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

ah yes, covering my floor in titties in a decorative manner.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The actual value of the money doesn't change though, and I think that was the person's misinterpretation as well, your implicit preference can be different based on how the money is presented but it's still 30 dollars, bills, coins, stock, gold, whatever. Portability can change, ease of use can change, mass can change, shape can change, but 30 bucks is 30 bucks and titties be titties.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

this as well. But to me, it's not that it's the same, it's that one is different from the other, in an unrelated manner.

One could argue coins have the distinct advantage in this case of being highly divisible, which is very true.

The question here was not whether titties were tittes, because that's obvious. But whether one titty was better than the other titty. I think the point here is demonstrating that it's not about the monetary value. It's about how you perceive it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes, agree, perception is important. I suppose the root of the disparity in our thinking is what "better" even means, because I'd argue that in and of itself is perceptual with no real definitive answer, at least when it comes to forms of money or titties, you can come up with all kinds of reasons for liking or disliking different forms.

But now I'm really just fascinated by the amount of mental energy we're all putting into a boob metaphor. Feels like analyzing a koan.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Interestingly, a pretty enjoyable green text as a bonus. Thanks x

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I prefer small, but that's just my 3,000 cents.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Big or small,

I love 'em all

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Yes, there's some reading comprehension issues here, but there's also bad writing.

The original question is about size, but the Philosopher, for some reason, makes a detour into mass. This detour goes nowhere, and just ends up as a distraction to the point he's trying to make. He could have just said, "Suppose you were to have $30 in coins instead, which would have more value, the coins or the bills?" No introduction of "mass" for no reason, just a straightforward analogy that different things can have the same value. Or, he could have kept the idea of size: "Suppose you needed to carry $30 in coins instead, would you need a bigger wallet? ... Ah, but which wallet's contents would have the greater value?"

It's also distracting that he says "you were to have $30 in coins as well". That makes it seem like it's important that Anon now has $60 instead of $30. If the idea was to compare $30 in coins to $30 in bills, a better wording would be "instead". Then you're comparing two situations in which Anon has $30, instead of a situation where he now has $60 instead of his original $30 but half of it is now in coins.

The way it's written is like a trick question where the obvious answer is wrong. The obvious answer is right, it just feels like it's wrong because it's badly written.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If it helps you understand better: big boobs have more mass than small boobs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Just because it was written badly doesn't mean I didn't understand.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Unless the small boobs are made of white dwarf star matter.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Suppose the breasts were $30 in my bank account. They weigh nothing, but -

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WOOOP WWOOOOOPPPP

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