If one machine can be used to make X (and nothing else) and another can be used to make Y, and each uses the same raw materials in the same amounts t… - Robert Nozick

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If one machine can be used to make X (and nothing else) and another can be used to make Y, and each uses the same raw materials in the same amounts to make a unit of its product, and X is more valuable than Y, then the first machine is more valuable than the second, even if each machine contains the same raw materials and took the same amount of time to make. The first machine, having a more valuable final product, will command a higher price than the second. This may give rise to the illusion that its products are more valuable because it is more valuable. But this gets things backwards. It is more valuable because its products are.

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About Robert Nozick

Robert Nozick (16 November 1938 – 23 January 2002) was an American libertarian philosopher and Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University.

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Alternative Names: Robert Edwin Nozick
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Some communities will be abandoned, others will struggle along, others will split, others will flourish, gain members, and be duplicated elsewhere. Each community must win and hold the voluntary adherence of its members. No pattern is imposed on everyone, and the result will be one pattern if and only if everyone voluntarily chooses to live in accordance with that pattern of community.

в моральном
плане ни одна жизнь не перевешивает другие так, чтобы можно было достичь увеличения
суммарного общественного блага. Нет оправданий, позволяющих пожертвовать одним человеком
ради других. Эта центральная идея — а именно, что есть разные люди, живущие каждый своей
жизнью, и ни одним нельзя пожертвовать для других — не только лежит в основе существования
жестких моральных ограничений, но и, по моему мнению, порождает либертарианское
ограничение, которое запрещает агрессию против другого.

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