For what it's Work!

Originally, the saying was with Worth not Work, and nowadays, it's like WORK and GROWTH are the only parameters creating VALUE, and hence WORTH talking about!? Well, You've heard it before, and I'll say it again:

The real value in life - once you're not hungry, cold or otherwise existentially threatened, which a lot of people on this planet are - comes from within.

Amygdalae, nucleus Accumbens and ...other assorted love songs, as Derek and the Dominos so poetically put it back in '70. I remember my older brother playing it on his Lenco, mounted with a meticulously manufactured and assembled scale to counterweight pick-up wearing of the record. Ahh - those were the days!
What really bothers me, is when I hear these so-called experts, with an economic degree answering questions not asked and dodging those asked, like this guy I heard on the radio this morning refusing to answer what are the consequences of economical inequality, which is larger and faster growing (that's growth for you!) than ever, and leading civilisation towards medieval structuring with very very very very very very few people possessing very very very very very very much property and wealth, whereas very very very very very many possessing ...nothing! Instead he kept on saying that capital concentration is good, because it makes capital available(!!) for investments, creating jobs, creating growth and this combined with people wanting to work (which they don't in Denmark, because allowance is too high), makes it possible for many people to improve their lives, regardless of the capital getting even more concentrated in the process. Apart from the obvious non-sense in this assumption or theorem, the poor interviewer was so incompetent, she didn't even attack it, and just kept on asking, what the bad consequences of capital concentration are. ALAS!
Why don't we talk about what is actually needed to create the correct afferent stimuli to the limbic nuclei, so they can do the job, they are there for? What does VALUE mean? What creates VALUE? I saw this debate the other day - actually some time back, March 20th - at my old school, with five disciplines (one from each Faculty) assembled to fight over, which created the most value in society! Science, Health, Economics, Humanisms and Technology. It was rather interesting and all of the incumbents were very skilled and empathic. The only fool - and he wasn't even that, just foolish - was the toastmaster, a quasi-famous danish journalist and writer. Former Spindoc for the DK tory party, although it's a long time ago! The point is, that although they probably all were aware, the only person putting it to question   WHAT IS VALUE?   was the lady from Humaniora (and she was a Philosopher!). The rest talked about getting healthier, living longer, creating new technologies saving the planet or how much money does a nurse make in terms of adding to GDP as opposed to an engineer and so on and so forth. In the end, though, they all agreed that real value creation is phenomenological, and thus individual though socially dependent, and more wisdom is the way forward. The poor moderator couldn't really create opposing meanings, and the conclusion was, we have to debate more and talk about what we want with our lives in this society, and we have to qualify this debate by being wiser and knowing more - in all aspects of life, emotional as well as intellectual and simple action. So, how do the universities and other educational institutions handle the enormous uptake, and the many unqualified youngsters all wanting to study (or basically get a degree - not necessarily study!!) flooding the Halls of wisdom these days? Which, by the way, is a good thing, if only money came along too!!
It's an interesting question. Unfortunately, I don't really have the time to go into it right now, because I have so much work to do, creating so much value, enabling me to ...ehh - buy a Mercedes?!