sport of sacred spherical cows on Nostr: No rush. Dealing with real world urgent matters myself. So, again, ego-value is not, ...

No rush. Dealing with real world urgent matters myself.

So, again, ego-value is not, in and of itself, good or bad. Perquisitive ego-value, per Frostean bargain, is specific target of critique under lumpentheory, but that's about how that ego-value is underwritten.

To be clear, the construction "ego-value" is meant to be thought of in context of use-value and exchange-value. To wit, ego-value is an material relation, not merely egoic, but rather something that inheres in produced goods (here, what lumpentheory terms "receipts"), physical and otherwise, as a social process. Thus, all ego-value is sunk cost, all ego-value is opportunity cost, because all production is about choices about doing one thing as opposed to any number of other things. And all choices have a temporality to them.

Perquisitive ego-value, in this context, specifically, is about goods attributed to terms of social contract. Not just good choices, but choices redeemed for compliance with contract.