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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 4682100" data-attributes="member: 5143">I still believe there is.  It is true that a physical item's value can be so low that it becomes pointless to own it or try to sell it, but it still does have SOME value.  Sure, a property might be perceived to have enough value so that they refuse to sell it for what people will actually pay for it.  Sometimes it becomes more expensive to own something than it is worth.In fact most of your examples just prove my point that items are worth what people are willing to pay for them.  Big ticket items like real estate, Hummers, are perceived to have so much value that people refuse to sell them for what they are actually worth, so they sit there unsold.Your point about the plastic just means that it costs more to collect all the plastic and to recycle it than it is worth.  However, they still HAVE value, just not enough to set up a wide scale collection program.  On the other hand, plastic bottles can still be used for all sorts of things on a smaller scale.  Someone might use them for crafts, to hold water in, or any number of other things I'm not thinking of.  And on a small scale, some company might actually pay to recycle them.  Someone has a use for it somewhere, even if its just as a paperweight.  Because they DO something they are worth money.  Even if its so little money that you'd need thousands of them to get a penny.  Even if the economy collapses and we have to resort to the barter system, they are worth something.The same is not really true of a text file that says "The sky is blue".  It doesn't have any value at all.  Even if you have 10 million of them no one would even pay you a penny for them.I agree with the first point but disagree with the second.  There is a minimum value on everything physical.  An item is worth something even if it is just being used to prop something up.  I will agree that the value of certain physical objects is so negligible so as to be worthless.Also, I find that information and non-physical items are simply more subjective about how useful they are.</blockquote>

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