The value of preserving a whiskey-making capability cannot be replaced simply by a rise in the price of bottles left after production ends.
Preservation has costs and competing claims; recognizing a capability's value does not require preserving every method unchanged.
Skills, future output, opportunities to learn and contributions to other production are different goods from scarce inventory. Heritage decisions should identify which goods an intervention preserves.
Idea
The value of preserving a whiskey-making capability cannot be replaced simply by a rise in the price of bottles left after production ends.
Why it matters
Skills, future output, opportunities to learn and contributions to other production are different goods from scarce inventory. Heritage decisions should identify which goods an intervention preserves.
Source and reasoning
Kawall, chapter 17, pp. 269–276, 278–283. This is an original synthesis of the contributor's argument, not an experimental finding.
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Connection to the existing library
This note develops a specific implication of that existing idea.
Counterpoint
Preservation has costs and competing claims; recognizing a capability's value does not require preserving every method unchanged.