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I did this for my World lit, have a look at it if you can.
I'll post more tomorrow I must go watch a movie for now (sorry)
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Member Since 01 Jul 2007Offline Last Active Feb 01, 2012 - 19:04
In Topic: To whom would you give the golden flute?
Oct 09, 2011 - 20:03
Sandwich, on Oct 09, 2011 - 08:50, said:
The flute maker on account of the fact he can appreciate it the most, because making something and appreciating its material and structure etc. is a higher level of understanding than somebody who simply plays the thing. As for why not the poor man, well he'd have to melt it down into gold and then sell it, so the specific fact of being a golden flute would be redundant. If you wanted to be a generous person, sell the golden flute to the flute maker and give the poor man the cash.
Not really, there's cash for Gold now a days
Keel, on Oct 09, 2011 - 10:43, said:
Nick Habibi, on Oct 09, 2011 - 00:04, said:
Alright, you have a golden flute. There are three people you can choose from based on who you want to give this golden flute to (it;s made form gold and can be played):
-A poor man
-A flute maker
-Or a flute player
State your assumptions too make your point more clear.
-A poor man
-A flute maker
-Or a flute player
State your assumptions too make your point more clear.
- The flute player’s music is independent of whether they are using a wooden, metal, or a golden flute. Therefore the utility of giving them the flute is close to nil i.e. they simply have an extra flute to play with. The fact that it is made out of gold is irrelevant from a music perspective. The utility of giving it to the flute player is merely equal to the value of gold.
- The flute maker has the ability to make flutes. The fact that you are giving him a flute is pointless when he can make his own. Thus by giving him a golden flute you are in effect giving him gold. If they know how to make a golden flute, this serves as a further reason not to give them an item they produce. The maximum utility to the flute maker would therefore be the gold.
- Giving the gold flute to the poor man gives him twice as much utility as giving it to the others. The gold flute serves both as a flute and as gold to this poor man. He thus has the choice to allocate the resource i.e. his allocation is flexible. Moreover, from a macro perspective, such wealth distribution is bound to be good in the long run and assuming there are only three people around, the gold is bound to be some day distributed between all three parties. There is no shortage of flutes or music due to the other two parties and there is increased aggregate wealth.
It's more economics than philosophy.
You are assuming that neither the flute maker nor the flute player are not poor. This assumptions flaws your economic analysis. pwned.
Buy jokes aside, look at what information we don't have before trying to make out an answer:
we don't know if the flute maker is good at his job.
We don't know what type of a flute the flute player plays, he might use some sort of african contraption of a flute that has nothing to do with the European sideways version of it.
we don't know the weight of the gold. We don't knwo the size of the flute or it's functionality.
So My answer it, Bob. Because Bob's a nice guy.
In Topic: What is the point of TOK?
Sep 04, 2011 - 16:11
You're in IB1, probably 15 or 16. You're not supposed to know what the point of it is yet.
When you start thinking laterally instead of vertically you'll understand it's point. Then again some people will never associate their lateral thiking to the course anyway, out of cockiness of thinking that they already thought that way from before,or they already thought that way really
lateral thinking is basically being able to think outside the box.
When you start thinking laterally instead of vertically you'll understand it's point. Then again some people will never associate their lateral thiking to the course anyway, out of cockiness of thinking that they already thought that way from before,or they already thought that way really
lateral thinking is basically being able to think outside the box.
