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We keep measuring everything's value with something that continuously loses value over time
(self.showerthoughts)
A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts: 1
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report the message goes away and you never worry about it.
Honestly? Sometimes my brain just runs with stuff like this. Having travelled enough, it gets really fascinating, what's expensive where and why. A universal value metric would be about as useful to me as the Kelvin scale is. It's nice to have it as a thought tool, but it's not particularly useful day-to-day.
Gotcha, so more of a solution looking for a problem at this point? I thought you were advocating for a policy path I wasn't understanding. Nothing wrong with simply ideating for the sake of exploration. I do the same myself.