Artificial and natural value

If the main function of money is to facilitate exchange and provide trust, then the main function of goods directly is to satisfy our desires and needs. The need for a product creates and increases its value. Value is precisely this property of a product to be needed.
So this property itself can be divided into situational and general or market value. Situational value is determined by the need to purchase a product, here and now under current conditions. The total value is, as far as possible, independent of time and space, but dependent on the rarity on the planet and the difficulty of mining, an example is gold.
An example of situational value could be water at a roadside store, food at a nearby cafe, and so on. One way or another, everything has its own situational and general market value. Any good has both a general and a situational value, for example, a brick bought from a factory will have a lower situational value than a brick bought at a nearby market.
Total value is created by rarity, usually the lower the total value, the lower the price, since situational value implies additional logistics costs so that the product is in the right place at the right time. Rarity itself can be either natural, resulting from the rarity of resources, or artificial, due to the rare talent of a person to make a rare commodity out of a resource.
One of the advantages of a modern market economy is competition, both in the realm of situational value and in the production of shared value. And all this happens under the influence of spontaneous or traditional circumstances that do not take into account such factors as the depletion of natural resources, human health and, in a general sense, the irreversibility of the processes of general human life. By this I mean that once an animal species is destroyed, a forest is cut down, rubbish is created, pollution, etc. it is impossible or rather difficult to correct and return to its original form. That is, the economy has never set itself the goal of reducing its impact on nature. To do this, we will analyze the very nature of what creates economic activity, namely the value of this or that and the ways in which this value is created.
So, in addition to situational and general value, we can say that this value itself, in both cases, can be created to a greater extent by nature itself and by man. In the first case, we have a natural value, which is the higher, the higher the rarity and complexity of extracting a given resource in nature, such as gold. In the second, an artificial value, an example of this can be any product that is particularly difficult to manufacture, such as a watch, computer, etc.
We have already identified that the market impact vector is relative to the situational and general value, in particular, that the market impact should lower the situational value and increase the overall value, that is, make goods more accessible and valuable in quantitative and qualitative terms. All this takes place in the free market, providing us with everything we need for life at the lowest market prices. But we are introducing another ecological, no longer a market, non-competitive vector, but one that meets our general ideas about how it should be better for everyone.
So, this ecological or natural vector itself, in its essence, can contradict human life, since a person is a kind of opposing force. For this reason, the economy that is created with the help of open money, I call the economy of harmony, as it allows you to harmonize the competitive market vector of development and the opposite natural one.
For these purposes, we resort to morality and politics, as a tool for its expression and influence on people, by creating some artificial market conditions leading to harmony with nature. Therefore, in the following discussions, I will note both what is already there and how it should be, as a kind of development vector that promotes harmony.
So, as far as the creation of artificial values, whether general or situational, is concerned, it is always some kind of work that is not valuable in itself, but should be. This can be explained in such a way that each person does not want to work on his own, but one must strive to ensure that this is so, so that work brings pleasure. As for the results of labor, the value of the products of this labor should be as large as possible, with the least possible use of resources using the values of resources. Ideally, we should have an autonomous production serviced by one person, producing many high-quality goods from the simplest resources, and the service process itself should bring as much pleasure as possible, including from the pay received for this work. First of all, natural values should be divided into renewable ones, these include agricultural products, non-renewable, fossils, metals, hydrocarbons, etc. .d.
With regard to natural values or resources, it would be right to use the smallest amount of them, and as for difficultly renewable natural resources, then one should create conditions for their natural renewal. Renewable resources must be renewed in such a way that this, in turn, is consistent with the above and does not harm the person as a whole.
So in essence, any garbage that is not related to products obtained from renewable natural resources and therefore decomposes quickly enough should not exist in principle. The planting and growth of new trees should prevail over felling. Food products must be completely harmless to the human body, and their consumption does not create garbage.
From all the indicated values, a certain relationship must also follow in the sense that non-renewable resources should not provide situational value and, accordingly, renewable resources should provide situational value.
And while we return to artificial values or directly to human labor, we should already understand that in a competitive economy this labor itself, otherwise entrepreneurial activity, will be organized in an optimal way, based on given conditions. And in this regard, in the system we can set the conditions for what resources should be produced, but not regulate and control the production itself, since it meets the individual desires of people, which can change. That is, in this respect, the economy of harmony is not and should not be any kind of entrepreneurial activity that satisfies certain desires, it only creates conditions for their satisfaction, without violating the overall natural balance.