What was it Hugo said in Les Miserables? "Sometimes the beautiful is more useful than the useful." I think this was in context of a daisy, for some reason, but am not really sure. And yeah, it's kinda scary that utilitarianism has been reduced to dollar values, and a particularly skewed way of looking at dollar values, at that.
(try going up to a Chicago-school economic "utilitarian" and suggest that $1 for a homeless person and $1 for a money-rich person do not actually have the same value, and that $100 for said homeless person has more actual value than $1,000,000 for Donald Trump, and watch the scorn ensue.)
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(try going up to a Chicago-school economic "utilitarian" and suggest that $1 for a homeless person and $1 for a money-rich person do not actually have the same value, and that $100 for said homeless person has more actual value than $1,000,000 for Donald Trump, and watch the scorn ensue.)
(also, nice post)