Value for us, real people who have needs. We decide what we want to buy and not some apparatchik on their pedestal.
>>Rivers here are drying out. Glaciers are melting. Forests are burning.
As if this never happened before capitalism?
The values of the poor are not reflected. The values of the indigenous are not reflected. The values of the non-capitalist are not reflected. The value of the unborn is not reflected. The value of nature is not reflected.
The glacier doesn't participate in the market and neither does the river. Are they without value?
> As if this never happened before capitalism?
That's correct. Look at the graph I posted above, you'll notice that things weren't always this hot. Before capitalism they sure weren't.
That is just straight up not true. The tribal elder in the Amazon, who's forest capitalists are burning down never got asked how he defines value. The child not yet born was never asked if it's atmosphere should be heated up for data centers. Neither was the fish in the river or the river itself for that matter.
> what do you mean by rivers, glaciers or others not participating in the market?
I'm not sure what's unclear. The glacier melts as a result of somebody who's not the glacier deciding "value" on a market. In reality, the market doesn't decide value. Value is not price. The market decides power structures and violence distribution. The glacier has a value completely separate from the market, and not derived from it.
> There were a lot of natural disasters
Why are we pivoting to natural disasters now?
So I'd appreciate if we stopped pretending the market did, when it fails to account for anything that's not somebody with money.
How could it possibly assign "value" that way?