What is my Value? Is Worth the same as Value? If I have money, do I exist? How did I get from a simple question of Value to the existential? The question should be how did WE get so far from it.
Value and Worth are more concepts than they are tangible. More of an experience. But experience requires a passage of time, you say? Does the attainment of value require time? If so, everything should be more valuable the older it is. Obviously, it is how you define and express value and worth. Maybe it is how we express these concepts? Think of all the choices we have to express Worth and value.
The time. The trouble. Living for. Dying for. Loving.They are all so juicy and full of promise. Funny how people choo$e the most benign one.
Products that you use every day in your life are no different. A GOOD design for a product or procedure is brought forth through careful and deliberate choices made on experience and research of beings. (Humans are not the only experience based species). The passage of time mentioned before may be applied in this discussion in this capacity, simply that adequate time is invested into the development of a product. When done so, a product is developed that focuses on establishing worth and value through the EXPERIENCE. It enriches your existence through enhancing an emotional connection. Financial cost is irrelevant.
BAD design can be produced when WORTH is defined only in terms of $. It may be in terms of cost of production. Or end cost to buyer. Or target wholesale price. I am not saying that when these factors are considered, that it always produces bad design. I am saying that when something is designed with these factors as GUIDES, bad design is often the outcome. Why? WORTH/VALUE are different than PRICE/COST.
Experience,(qualitative instead of quantitative) is the definition of value and worth. This happens when we define FREE things in our lives as priceless. Your child's smile. Swinging. What is strange is then we turn around and give credibility (illegal) to subjects that are considered highly valued in financial terms. Subjects may include people or organizations. Then we turn around and consider the most valuable moral council to be with those financially worth the least, or uncorrupted, say, Gandhi.
As long as we do this as a majority, (it has not ALWAYS been this way) we will continue to all feel the confusion whenever we are asked the question "So, what do you do?", or when someone comments on your new jeans, you feel the need to claim "they were on sale" Or to get a high when you pull up to valet in your expensive car to impress people you never met, then tell people you DO KNOW how cheap you got it.
