"Everyone should have healthcare!"
Now looking at this statement, you agree, but what is healthcare to you? Healthcare is relative to what we have been taught by society for it to be. If healthcare was just a bandaid for a cut, then healthcare could be provided to everyone. Is healthcare a bandaid? No.
Looking at the idea of relativity we can also relate it to scarcity. When comparing teachers and athletes salary does it seem that we value athletes more because we pay them more and give them more monetary value? yes, but this is relative scarcity. Teacher's skills are more frequent than a famous athlete's skills are. Therefore famous athletes are more scarce. If you take 200 athletes out of the NBA, it would deplete, but if you take 200 teachers out of school it wouldn't be detrimental because there are so many other teachers. However, if the world had to re-build itself and only an athlete and a teacher were there to re-build, the teacher would be far more valuable to society, and is far more valuable to society now.
We don't necessarily care about resources, we care about what the resource are giving us.
"Value Arises From Human Interpretation."
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