What represents the value of money? What you can buy with it. What determines what you can buy with it? The total capital stock available and the services offered through labor.
This part of the capital stock is gone. Literally into smoke.
Money is not some abstract independent entity. Its value is directly linked to the real production of the real economy.
blujan@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Yes, but the point of the person you responded to is that work for the sake of work is also a waste.
treadful@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
May as well just all just suicide and mulch ourselves so we don’t do anything without purpose.
blujan@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Just to be clear, I was just saying that the point was ignored, not that I agree.
Although your response isn’t good either, you can advocate for more efficiency so people get to do more rewarding work, such as arts and crafts. Part of these arts and crafts can also be fireworks.
I don’t think the work that’s done to create and use fireworks is without purpose, in the end it’s a celebration and that’s purpose in and of itself.