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The Value of Values	2023-12-29	/value-values/	reading

In How Infrastructure Works, Deb Chachra notes the confusion potential in uses of the term “public good,” and works to distinguish its economic definition (goods that are non-rivalrous and non-excludable) from what she terms its “moral sense” (110). That we need to make such a distinction says a lot about our culture, and about the choices we make in relation to our infrastructures -- what's worth investing in, and on whose behalf. How might we begin to promote the kinds of collective decision-making in our institutions and our projects that can begin to shift our focus from value to values?