# There’s no sound economic reason to do INSERT SOMETHING AWESOME

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**Category:** FAQ\
**Tags:** economics\
**Created:** [January 23, 2020, 7:24am UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/there-s-no-sound-economic-reason-to-do-insert-something-awesome/46 "2020-01-23T07:24:33Z")\
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There are a number of arguments to be made here, among them the confusion – in so much of Earth culture – of exchange-value (money) with actual _value_ – consider all the things _you_ do every day that there’s no “sound economic reason” for doing – and the different ways of looking at things when you aren’t regulated into considering only next quarter’s share price, and have the lifespan to undertake truly long-term projects knowing you’ll still be around for the returns.

But mostly…

_“Yeah, we encountered Practicality, once. We didn’t like it much. So we told it to bugger off, and went back to our torrid affair with Awesomeness.”_

…what price can you put on greatness?

Consider their values, in the posts linked above. The only people who whine about the lack of a reason to do something awesome are Obstructive Naysayers, and the local culture _loathes_ Obstructive Naysayers.