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> Value is ultimately always in the eye of the beholder.

If you mean value per se, not at all. There are difference kinds of value (intrinsic, instrumental).

A piece of bread has objective nutritional value, for example. It doesn’t matter whether you personally dislike bread.





Nope.

As a trivial example, someone with celiac’s disease is not going to value your gluten ridden bread very high.


The nutritional value of bread is still in the bread, even if celiac disease impedes or frustrates access to that value.

There are intrinsic properties of bread such as calorific content that a celiac can't deny. Same with gold.



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