human worth

This note last modified September 1, 2024

Ostensibly, the amount of money you make is an indication of how much others are willing to pay for your skills and work. While this isn’t a great metric, even if it was, its frustrating that the value people have for corporations is often conflated with the amount of value people have, period.

communities
- Humans evolved to live in tight knit communities where most everyone knew each other and worked together. Hyper industrialization has compartmentalized the ways in which we live and over-applied metrics to assigning value to us. This is an explanation for the rise of loneliness, alienation from work#, social media, internet communities, and parasocial relationships. While this is, of course, a massive oversimplification, I hope that it’s an interesting thought with an element of truth.