Compare and contrast Simmel and Marx’s conceptions of value.
What will be an ideal response?
Simmel found in sacrifice— the giving up of one’s money, time, services, possessions—“the condition of all value.” Hence, there can be no universal, objective standard by which value can be established.
Value, then, is always subjective and relative. It is determined by the interaction at hand in which actors weigh their desire for the goods in question against the amount of sacrifice required to attain them.
Moreover, without having to endure obstacles or some form of self denial, not even the most intensely felt desire for an object will make it valuable. Value is created out of the “distance” that separates desire from its satisfaction and the willingness to sacrifice something in order to overcome that distance.
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