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natepriv22 t1_j1yaql8 wrote

And yet the ones you listed below are worth more than the ones you listed above

That's due to marginal utility theory: "People make decisions on the margin. No one chooses between "guns" or "butter", but between a definite amount of guns and a definite amount of butter.

As an actor acquires more and more units of a good, he devotes them to successively less and less urgent ends (i.e. ends that are lower on his scale of values). Therefore the marginal utility of a good declines as its supply increases. This is the law of diminishing marginal utility."

Source: https://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Marginal_utility

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