#Value

Consequentialism is the faith that elevates achieved figures to the status of truth, relegating ethics and process to the shadows. It worships triumph called "results" with blind devotion, ignoring the violence of means and human cost. In boardrooms, "just deliver results" becomes the greatest mantra, and reports erase everything but the eloquence of charts. Evaluating morality or fairness takes a back seat to the sanctification of performance metrics. Ultimately, it harbors the terrifying notion that even humanity itself can be measured by the yardstick of outcomes.

Customer Lifetime Value is the number summoning the ghost of every transaction to parade through spreadsheets in a desperate attempt to predict forever. Conceptually a machine that forever forecasts future purchases, in reality it chases the specters of past data. Customers are awarded or deprived of their worth at the whim of algorithms, trapped in a distorted world of metrics. In the end, it is the monarch of number games, dancing to the capricious spells of churn and discount rates.

Price is the number that baptizes desire. Too high, and it fools us into faith in value; too low, and it becomes the scapegoat of doubt. It bears the whim of markets as its curse, extracting screams from wallets. A mathematical battlefield between buyer confidence and seller profit. Ultimately, it sits at the kaleidoscopic heart of human folly.

Value discussion is a ceremony held in meeting rooms to ostensibly explore each other’s values while covertly validating one’s own convenience. Participants lend ears but activate noise-cancelling shields the moment it gets inconvenient. Diversity is celebrated only to be funneled through the homogenizing filter of corporate slogans. Behold the fluttering of the butterfly of pretense.