Economics of Pain: Pain currency (part 2)

If pain can be purchased, how can I set a price on it?

Pain can be value-less in some cases, where there is no gain at all from going through that experience of pain, not even greater courage to face future pain. Not even the lesson to not put myself into situations that create such kinds of pain.

Pain can be invaluable in other cases. Having gone through deep hurt and suffering, my perceptions of pain can change. I can overlook small hurts caused by other people, I can tolerate injections, needles for blood tests, and even rejection by someone I care deeply for.

Having faced the worst, I also know that there is a 'pain solstice'. Just like July 21st in Australia is the day of the winter solstice, which has the longest night in the year, my pain will finally peak at a solstice. Suddenly, it stops getting so cold anymore, and there's still daylight after 6 pm. I guess if I can stand in the midnight of the worst kinds of pain, without running away from it, daylight does start to show again after awhile.

So pain has no way of being measured. It can be either so rich in its final beneficience that it has infinite value, or it can so useless that its worth less than the slime on the back of a dirty sink.

So a commodity, if pain is to be regarded as one, with either infinite or no value at all, cannot be exchanged. Or can it?

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