Anti-Capitalist Sentiment (with some morality)

[MadMojoMonkey]

My economics professors have spent a good deal of time teaching us to think things like this: "He values his self-respect more than the $40 he's being offered to do this thing that will hurt his self-respect. However, he'll part with his self-respect for $100." In that case, his willingness to lose that specific iteration of self-respect is equivalent to his desire to gain $100.

That's all well and good for the class of things which "he" values monetarily.

What about the wealth of things which he values at infinity dollars?

or 0 dollars?

[wufwugy]

That's all well and good for the class of things which "he" values monetarily.

What about the wealth of things which he values at infinity dollars?

or 0 dollars?

Then it's infinity dollars or zero dollars. I mean this literally. If you're holding a snickers bar in your hand and you would not give that snickers bar to a man offering you a hundred trillion dollars for it, that snickers bar is worth more than a hundred trillion dollars to you.