Manors and Lords

From ancient times to the present, from south to north, from east to west, from developed to backward, we humans have never used working time as a criterion for judging value. When we judge goods or behaviors or anything that can be exchanged, we use demand and scarcity as the only guiding criteria, without exception. Let me give you a few examples: 1. Two vendors sell cabbage. The quality of their cabbage is exactly the same. People who buy vegetables know the quality of vegetables. This design is to eliminate interference. I will explain it later. Two vendors A go to the vegetable field every day for maintenance, while B only have a small amount of time to maintain it. Anyone who has grown vegetables knows that you don't need to look at it every day, because the plants are not that fragile. Assuming that their working hours differ by 3-5 times, can the prices of these two types of cabbage differ by 3-5 times? Let's change the example just now. Assume that the two types of cabbage have the same taste, one grows better, and the average weight of each cabbage differs by 1.5 Times. Then will the price of the two types of cabbage differ by 3-5 times? Let's change the question. If we sell in the same market, will A earn 2-4 times more than B? 2. A and B sell swords together. A is a swordsmith whose skills are not top-notch but can be considered above average. A's swords are relatively practical and B's skills are above average. However, he has been marketed and appeared on TV and is very well-known. His works are more gorgeous, but that does not mean that the quality is poor. The performance of his swords is only a little worse than that of A, and the quality is better than ordinary swords. The time it takes for a and b to make swords is almost the same. Whose sword is more expensive? In most cases it's a, right? Because a is a famous knifemaker, it has a celebrity effect, and the celebrity effect is actually a manifestation of "scarcity". After all, not every knife is made by a famous knifemaker. Why are limited edition items so expensive? Why are things signed by celebrities so expensive? This is all caused by scarcity. 3. What do humans need most? Is it food? Is it a house? Is it work? No, if you don't have a house you can sleep on the street, if you don't have a job you can beg for food, even if there is no food in the world, you can still live for three to five days, and if you are fat, you will last longer. What's more important than food? It's air. Without air, you'd be suffocated in a minute or so. What's scarcer than air? It is a suitable temperature. The temperature suitable for most human beings to survive is around 25 degrees Celsius. So is air valuable? Is the right temperature valuable? They all have value, and the reason why their value seems unimportant is that in most cases they are too scarce. We humans use two standards to calculate value, scarcity and demand. The result of scarcity multiplied by demand. The value is directly proportional to demand. The higher the demand, the higher the value. The lower the demand, the lower the value. Value and scarcity are inversely proportional, the more scarce something is, the higher its value is, and the less scarce something is, the lower its value is. Although humans have an absolute need for suitable temperature and air, there are absolute quantities of suitable temperature and air. Therefore, the value of these two is generally not high. The scarcity of suitable temperature is relatively less than that of air, so suitable temperature is more expensive than air. Although you have not spent money to buy "suitable temperature", this is just the value of suitable temperature being transferred to clothes, air conditioners, coal, houses, and firewood. You are actually paying for the right temperature all the time. In places where underwater air is valuable and air is scarce, space is more expensive than underwater air. Because oxygen is scarcer in space than underwater. 4. In a small mountain village, suppose there are ten people who are good at carpentry, but there is only one blacksmith. Which one earns more, the carpenter or the blacksmith? Which one is more expensive, wood products or iron products, made in the same time? Author, you have fallen into a misunderstanding and reversed cause and effect. In most cases, the reason why small-scale peasant economic societies seem to use working hours as the standard for calculating value is actually an illusion. It is still carpenters and blacksmiths. In ancient times, there was rarely one carpenter and ten blacksmiths in an economy, and it was also rare to have one blacksmith and ten carpenters in one economy. In the actual society, in the same economy, that is, in an economic circle with the most frequent economic exchanges, such as a village, a town, or a city, people choose a profession to learn and work based on demand. Assuming that a city requires twenty carpenters and five blacksmiths, then as long as there is enough time to develop, the ratio of blacksmiths to carpenters in the city will gradually approach 20:5. Suppose there are 24 carpenters and one blacksmith in the city above. What will happen to them? The number of carpenters exceeds the demand, so the income of carpenters will decrease, and the supply of blacksmiths exceeds the supply. People who are in urgent need of iron tools will pay more to buy them, and the blacksmiths will make a lot of money. Then what? Carpenters will start to change their profession, either to blacksmithing, or to other profitable jobs. Everyone knows that blacksmiths make money, so parents will try their best to let their children learn to blacksmith. In the end, everyone's income will be similar for the same working hours, and the ratio of blacksmiths and carpenters will gradually become almost the same. 5. Why don't humans use working hours as a criterion for value judgment? First of all, as a customer, when I buy something, I rarely care about how long it took the seller to complete the work. Instead, I shop around to see how your quality is and when it meets my requirements. If your product and the other person's product can meet my needs, I will not give you more money because you work harder. I can also buy other people's products. Furthermore, value judgment is very subjective. There are no two people in this world with exactly the same values. A husband and wife cannot do this, nor can a father, son, or mother and daughter. The value judgments of two different people can never be consistent. For example, let's say unlocking a door. Some people think 20, some think 200, and some think 100 is the most reasonable. So who is right? Even if some people barely pay 150 yuan, deep down they feel that they are at a loss. Some people sweep the streets and can't earn 200 for a day, while some people can earn 200 for two minutes just walking to someone's door. When did humans ever use labor time as the criterion for value judgment? When have human value judgments been unified? If value judgments are not unified, how can labor time be used as the criterion?

In ancient times, you had to sign up for a group to survive, but the result was not good. Just take away a cow and a knife at the beginning? ? ? You think it's modern, just use Taobao! What a great start! Lese!

If not, I won't read it. Even if it's well written, it's not interesting.

It's obviously the way of ancient China. Let's just say it's medieval Europe.

Now that I have read this book, I feel very warm and have a sense of immersion. I usually like to watch this type of videos, survival and construction. I like them all. It feels a bit like playing Minecraft, cutting down trees, planting land, and forging adventures. I really like it. I am very tired from work. Reading this book is very relaxing. It is just like watching videos such as knife forging competitions, repairing donkey hoofs, watching African Sapp, wilderness survival, building houses in the wild, etc.

It is tasteless to eat and a pity to throw away. Written by Wen Qing, it is said to be a historical article. There is no logic in the whole process. The population and economic data are all fictitious. They are all percentages. They don't even bother to make up a number of people.

Brother, your book was issued to the wrong nationality.

Write about the Middle Ages, right? Landless director? Is there no feud for lords in such a good place? The name is Joey, Qiao Shen, and his father's name is Job? There are many kinds of land and breeding, he doesn't understand at all, he is just messing around! Also, the data is unclear! The writing is neither Chinese nor Western!

In order to hatch chicks, eggs need to be fertilized, and there must be a rooster, otherwise it won't work. Can the author have some common sense about life?

I didn't like it and thought it was a lord's start.