What Is the Value?
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The episode explores the concept of value through the story of Pablo and a handmade bowl he discovers on the beach.
More Pablo stories: https://eattmag.com/free-podcasts-download/ Pablo was still walking along the beach. The bowl was in his hands. Every now and then, he stopped and looked at it. He turned it over. He ran his fingers around the outside of it, and then around the smooth edge at the top. He wondered about its value. Not its value in money. He did not mean: "How much could I sell this bowl for?" Or: "How much would it cost in a shop?" He was thinking about a different kind of value. Who had made it? How had they made it? How long had it taken them? What tools had they used? And what was the bowl actually made from? He held it up towards the sunlight. There were small marks across its surface. They were not scratches exactly. They looked more like signs that it had been made by hand. Perhaps someone had spent hours making it. Perhaps someone had spent days making it. Perhaps the person who made it had learned how to make bowls from another person. And perhaps that person had learned from someone before them. Pablo liked that idea. He rubbed his hands across the bowl again. Then he wondered what the bowl could do. It could hold something, of course. It could sit on a table. It could…
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