Knowledge - the second most important commodity after money

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This seems to be a generalisation - as though all knowledge has the same value.

― nathalie, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A penny for your answer.

― nathalie, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I deplore the commodification of knowledge.

― N., Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That's funny coming from a bedroom genius such as yourself Richard.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What's that got to do with the price of fish?

― N., Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In Ireland the phrase is the price of eggs.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Quite a lot, if yer after me golden treasure.

― Captain Birdseye, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ronan is after yr golden shower

― mark s, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i deplore the commodification of piss.

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

sigh....

― nathalie, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay, piss free answer. a) Money's not a commodity. And b) the point about commodities is that they are valued differently, even within a particular category (think coffee; mmm, coffee). Even in market terms, commodification doesn't imply a single value (there're lots of people here with programming skills which are worth 100 times my 'extensive' knowledge of the difference between experiential and autopoietic intrinsic value theories, say). People who talk about the commodification of knowledge are generally, like N., deploring attempts to reduce it to an exchange-value alone, to one value-*system*. This is a) wrong and b) not happening.

― Ellie, Wednesday, 19 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Question-extender: do you possess any knowledge that you've realized has very little market value and which you wish you could trade for something more applicable or economically useful? (For ILMers this may be Taking Sides: encyclopedic knowledge of Factory Records back- catalog versus speaking Spanish; detailed recollection of mid-80s NME writers versus working knowledge of modern European history; etc.)

― nabisco%%, Friday, 21 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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