If you read the rest of my comment, you'll see that it is not identical at all. For instance, why would a lottery winner value their time more highly? Their time doesn't earn them anything. And you went beyond saying that the individual values their time more, you implied that society should also value it more to encourage productivity. But again, what kind of productivity are we encouraging from a lottery winner, a trust fund baby, or a con artist?
> For instance, why would a lottery winner value their time more highly? Their time doesn't earn them anything.
You're still not understanding what the point of my comment was. There's no platonic unit that we're comparing both time and money too such that one of them can change and the other doesn't; the "value" of time and money is relative to the other thing.
A person who has won the lottery _absolutely_ values their time more highly than they did before. Or are you suggesting that if someone was poor and then wins the lottery they'd be exactly as likely to take cabs vs a much slower/cheaper public transit route? Exactly as likely to hire house cleaners, or order delivery at the same frequency instead of cooking dinner? Valuing a unit of money less simply _means_ valuing time more; this isn't an empirical consequence, it's practically definitional. If a dollar means less to you because you have so much more $$, and an hour of your time means the same amount to you, _that literally mathematically means that an hour is worth more dollars to you_. This concept is so incredibly basic that I am actually running out of different ways to phrase it.
> And you went beyond saying that the individual values their time more, you implied that society should also value it more to encourage productivity.
What....the hell? Where did I say anything like this? My only contribution to this subthread was pointing out how you misunderstood the concept of two things being valued relative to each other. There was no commentary at all on whether society _should_ do anything (and any implication came purely from your imagination); in fact I personally happen to think that extremely high estate taxes are an excellent idea; chance, inheritance, and the fact that markets aren't perfect reflectors of value all do a pretty good job of decoupling wealth from any notion of "deserving-ness".
Or are you suggesting that if someone was poor and then wins the lottery they'd be exactly as likely to take cabs vs a much slower/cheaper public transit route?
No, I'm saying their desire to take a cab wouldn't change. The fact that I can't afford to buy the Hope Diamond doesn't mean I value it at zero. Likewise, the fact that I can't afford to buy myself an extra ten minutes by getting a taxi doesn't mean that I place no value on those ten minutes.
> And you went beyond saying that the individual values their time more, you implied that society should also value it more to encourage productivity.
What....the hell? Where did I say anything like this?
I think it was this bit, where you say wealthy people's time is worth more because they're more productive and we should encourage such productivity:
"Their time is worth more because they create more value per unit time than others. We want productive people to become even more productive, that's how the world gets better."
