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Great eye candy examples!
As for "See also: for the love of monetize", our exchange had me remembering the early days of gold-rushery to "monetize" web pages, and thought it fun to substitute it for the word 'money' in "for the love of money" (possibly a Bible phrase...?). The "See also:" part was something I enjoyed leveraging more in the past in forum posts. The time felt right for a reappearance.
As for what it means, to me it's how a shift in focus from a thing-in-itself to its alleged value seems a departure from the joy of sensory here-now to some purely conceptual world/space. For when and/or where is "value"? How does thinking about an object's value hold a candle to experiencing the object? What can be done with so-called "value" but think about it? And isn't that focus shift a sort of first step down Greed Lane?
(I feel I could have said that better, but things happening on the home front are undermining writing focus....)
No, I get what you're saying! What immediately comes to mind is people getting obsessed over their apparent "value" in a society, at their job, or towards others. I get caught up in that sometimes as well. But a person is more valuable than anything else in my opinion.
People get too caught up in value, in worth, in power. We need to lay back and enjoy things, and take life slowly.
That's why I've enjoyed Gemini so far. It focuses on people, on lives, on experiences, on _content_. It doesn't focus on the worth of those things.