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Unboxing a 1984 Atari Peripheral, 25 Years Later
Harry writes "When you come across a 1984 Atari Touch Tablet for sale cheap--in the original, unopened box--it would be a crime against computer history not to buy it, open it, install it, and use it, and to document the whole process with photos and commentary."
And all the pictures are of the type: "This is the front of the box", "This is the right side of the box", "This is the right side of the box, but you can also see the front of the box", "This is the front of the box, but you can also see the right of the box". I was really hoping that the last picture were of the Spanish Inquisition. But, alas, I was expecting it...
No, it's not a myth. You're trying to mis-frame the discussion. Water COULD have a differing objective value in different places or circumstances, depending upon the actual difficulty in obtaining it. Contrast that with bakeries in California during the Gold Rush, who were charging the miners $2 a loaf for bread not because that in any way represented what it cost them to make it, rather because it represented abuse of what the prospectors could pay.
You're trying to defend Darwinian supply and demand with a non sequitur; did you learn that trick in school? Why would you defend supply and demand, unless you are in fact a selfish creature who actually wants to preserve its right to abuse and disadvantage other people to its benefit?
Objective valuation is not a "myth", it's PREscriptive. Supply and demand is DEscriptive. One is a statement of how things are, the other a statement of how we would like them to be. Well, some of us decent folks, anyway, you excepted.