What value? Who decides? Upon what basis?

“The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation” Jeremy Bentham

Maximise utility? Cost benefit analysis? Who decides the value of things?

Typically our culture reduces almost everything down to money. So what happens when we take it one step further and start putting dollar values on our values, religion and beliefs?

It makes things a bit awkward but it certainly gets you thinking.

Check out the results of the Values Experiment on the story. How much people would pay for things . . .

Check also a Harvard YouTube clip discussing the issues.

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